Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: Not Specified

About Us

Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking, DeFi, global trade, and gaming by collaborating with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, notably Swift, DTCC, and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top Web3 teams, including Aave, Compound, GMX, Maker, and Synthetix. Chainlink Labs was ranked as one of the Global Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces by Newsweek 2025.

The Infrastructure Platform team enables Chainlink development and empowers engineers to continue building and supporting crucial products and services that have a profound impact in the blockchain industry. Reliability is vital to the success of our company. As a Senior SRE, you will help us accelerate and enable other engineering teams by increasing self-service and decreasing cognitive load. Key initiatives surrounding our mission include architecting and building a services catalog and an internal developer platform.

This job would be perfect for someone who has a strong DevOps mentality, is passionate about building and maintaining a mature GitOps environment, and has experience building and growing an internal developer platform. The entire engineering team is expanding, and you would have plenty of opportunities to build, learn, and grow.

We are distributed across time zones and continents, and we embrace remote work. Our team shares on-call responsibilities as part of a healthy rotation, with an emphasis on reasonable coverage and strong peer support.

We all have different backgrounds and are determined to help you succeed no matter where you are or who you are. If you think you would do a great job at Chainlink, we are looking forward to speaking with you, even if you don't match 100% of the job requirements: those describe people we've usually had a great time working with, but they're not a tick-box exercise.

Your Impact

• Build and orchestrate large, distributed infrastructure with a focus on automation.
• Shape the resilience, efficiency, and scalability of our services.
• Partner with engineers from across the company to help troubleshoot issues, deploy solutions, and accelerate their velocity.
• Innovate and enhance the infrastructure platform team’s product offerings to increase self-service, improve cost optimization, and reduce toil.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to your team and others.
• Champion best practices in reliability, security, and cloud infrastructure to help cultivate a culture of high operational standards.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of relevant professional experience. You probably have worked on a devops, infrastructure, SRE, and/or platform team before.
• Ability to develop software outside of the scope of typical infrastructure requirements and configurations.
• Experience in deploying or extending an internal developer platform to reduce cognitive burden and increase efficiency of other engineering teams.
• Have led large cross-team initiatives and can demonstrate a successful track record with quantifiable metrics that impact the business.
• Practical experience in shell scripting and demonstrable skills in at least one higher-level language.
• Excellent understanding of Linux.
• Expert knowledge in all aspects of designing, deploying, and supporting large real-time systems.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and end-to-end tracing is a plus.
• Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration.
• Strong communication skills. You can give and receive constructive feedback, and you do not shy away from planning meetings and code reviews.
• Familiar with most tools from our stack (see below).

Desired Qualifications

• Experience running any infrastructure in the blockchain.