[Remote] Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, a decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will build and orchestrate large, distributed infrastructure, enhance product offerings, and provide technical leadership to improve operational standards across the engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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)
- Experience running any infrastructure in the blockchain/web3 space is a plus
- Ability to scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
- Experience with internal, ephemeral test and development environments
- Experience implementing self service tooling
- Passion for security
- Experience with setting team priorities (OKRs) and aligning business processes required to get a product/service from ideation to production (PRD, RFC, etc)
- Experience working remotely in a distributed team
- A strong desire to grow and challenge yourself. We would expect you to constantly find ways to improve and automate services to reduce toil
- Excitement for blockchain, Web 3.0, and similar decentralized technologies.
Company Overview
- Chainlink Labs provides open-source blockchain oracle solutions and specializes in the development and integration of chainlink. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://chainlinklabs.com/.