Staff Software Engineer, Data Products

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not provided

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 in Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2023 in both the United States and United Kingdom.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Chainlink Labs, you’ll collaborate with an experienced technical team of other engineers, distributed systems computing experts, researchers, and security experts, who are all committed to building world-changing decentralized infrastructure. You’ll develop and build highly scalable, secure, and reliable software that will change the way smart contracts function at a fundamental level. You will be given a high level of autonomy/ownership over your projects, the opportunity to expand your scope of knowledge, and the chance to help build the decentralized infrastructure of the future.

Your Impact:

• Support our Data Products org. and work across various products such as Data Streams, Data Feeds and CRE.
• Deliver high impact across teams, stakeholders, and the organization to improve architecture, reliability, and cost savings.
• Work within the Chainlink Runtime Environment to build durable, distributed systems.
• Interact with DeFi Protocols across different chains.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional engineering experience working in a collaborative product-driven environment.
• Previous experience in working in Web3.
• Strong experience in one of the following: Golang, C++, TypeScript, Java, or Python.
• Professional experience working on a cloud-based big data system (AWS, GCP).
• Knowledge of computer science fundamentals and systems design concepts.
• Successful experience designing, building, and scaling a production service.
• Experience owning multi-month long projects, including communication of progress, dependencies, and risk mitigation directly with stakeholders and partners.
• Experience in building distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Support our Data Products org. and work across various products such as Data Streams, Data Feeds and CRE.
• Deliver high impact across teams, stakeholders, and the organization to improve architecture, reliability, and cost savings.
• Work within the Chainlink Runtime Environment to build durable, distributed systems.
• Interact with DeFi Protocols across different chains.
• Build powerful tooling to enable deep analytical insights into the Chainlink & wider blockchain ecosystem.
• Lead application-specific integrations with Chainlink.
• Build powerful tooling to aid in streamlining the integration of new data partners.
• Actively lead in leveling the team’s engineering bar, increasing the velocity of the team and the reliability of the product.

Desired Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience coding in Golang.
• Solidity development experience.
• Professional experience with financial applications or financial data.
• Experience working with blockchain ecosystems.