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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. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.\nMany 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 Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at .\nAbout the RoleThe Senior Site Reliability Engineer will own the reliability and operational performance of large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructure. This role will strengthen the production operation of streaming and Kubernetes workloads while ensuring infrastructure changes are managed through repeatable, version-controlled practices. The role will also improve the scalability and operational efficiency of the infrastructure that engineering teams depend on.\nYour Impact\nEnable critical product initiatives to launch on time. Deliver the streaming and data infrastructure required by CRE, CCIP, Data Feeds and Data Streams, translating product requirements into reliable Redpanda/Kafka and Flink capabilities.\n\nMaintain 99.9% availability for critical data infrastructure as usage grows. Scale streaming and Kubernetes workloads, resolve throughput and recovery bottlenecks, and define SLIs that reflect the experience of consuming services.\n\nKeep operational maintenance below 20% of team capacity. Reduce recurring incidents, manual interventions and routine maintenance through automation, actionable alerts, tested recovery procedures and repeatable vulnerability remediation. \n\nReduce cost to serve and make consumption accountable. Connect Redpanda topic traffic, Flink processing and BigQuery usage to the teams and services consuming them.\n\nIncrease infrastructure self-service and operational safety. Establish reusable infrastructure modules, deployment workflows and documentation that enable engineering teams to provision, test, scale and retire AWS and Kubernetes resources independently.\n\nUse service adoption and consumer needs to guide infrastructure improvements. Establish visibility into infrastructure consumers, service adoption, reliability, cost and maintenance effort.\n\nRequirements\nDemonstrated experience operating large-scale distributed systems and scalable data processing infrastructure in production, including managing availability, consistency, failure modes and performance trade-offs.\n\nOperated Kafka or Kafka-compatible streaming platforms such as Redpanda in production, with hands-on experience in capacity planning, performance tuning and troubleshooting.\n\nProvisioned and managed production infrastructure using Terraform, with version-controlled, reviewed and repeatable infrastructure changes.\n\nExperience deploying, operating and troubleshooting production Kubernetes workloads, including resource management, scaling and safe rollouts.\n\nPreferred Requirements\nBuilt reusable infrastructure modules, self-service capabilities and CI/CD workflows that enable engineering teams to deploy and operate services independently.\n\nExperience building and operating Apache Flink pipelines in production, including monitoring, diagnosing failures and managing recovery.\n\nOperated AWS Aurora/RDS in production, including provisioning, backup and recovery, failover, rightsizing and cost optimization.\n\nAdvanced experience with 1 or more of Apache Flink, Redpanda/Kafka, Iceberg, PostgreSQL, Airflow or Trino, demonstrated through work with system internals, complex troubleshooting or performance optimization.\n\nExperience reading, debugging and writing production-quality code in Java and/or Go.\n\nContributions to open-source infrastructure or data projects through code, tooling, documentation or actionable bug reports.\n\nAll roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).\nWe carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes. The closing date is listed on the job advert, so we encourage you to take the time to thoughtfully prepare your application. We want to fully consider your experience and skills, and you will hear from us regarding the status of your application shortly after the closing date.\nCommitment to Equal OpportunityChainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances. 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