Chainlink Labs is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, CCIP in Engineering — Charlotte. The overview below is synthesized from the employer posting on jobs.ashbyhq.com: factual requirements and scope are preserved, but prose is rewritten with editorial context. Verify details and apply via the employer link.
About Chainlink
Company context from the listing:
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more.
Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic ⇧JOBLINK:https://blog.chain.link/chainlink-res
About the Role
Day-to-day scope for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer, CCIP as described in the posting:
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the CCIP Platform team, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of the systems powering Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP). This role exists to strengthen production resilience, reduce operational toil, and enable engineering teams to ship safely while maintaining high service availability.
Your Impact
Day-to-day scope for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer, CCIP as described in the posting:
- Improve deployment safety and increase delivery velocity by advancing production engineering practices.
- Establish distributed tracing across the platform to improve observability and accelerate incident investigation.
- Eliminate operational toil through automation that increases engineering efficiency and platform reliability.
- Drive adoption of meaningful SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets that guide engineering decisions and improve service health.
- Increase platform scalability and operational readiness as CCIP continues to grow.
- Strengthen Chainlink's reputation through highly available production systems while reducing operational overhead.
Requirements
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- Demonstrated experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or a similar role operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise defining, implementing, and driving adoption of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across engineering organizations.
- Built and operated production Kubernetes environments supporting critical services.
- Applied OpenTelemetry to improve observability across distributed systems.
- Experience improving the reliability, scalability, and operability of production infrastructure.
Preferred Requirements
- Demonstrated technical leadership influencing reliability practices across engineering teams.
- Experience performing capacity planning and performance tuning for high-throughput distributed services.
- Previous experience working on Web3 infrastructure or within a crypto-native engineering organization.
- Applied chaos engineering or fault-injection techniques to improve production resilience.
- Partnered with software engineering teams to conduct production-readiness reviews before service launches.
- Experience leading on-call operations, including defining rotations, escalation policies, and improving alert quality.
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