Engineering Manager - DON Coordination

October 23

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Chainlink Labs

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Blockchain • Smart Contracts • Blockchain Oracles • Cryptography • Decentralized Systems

501 - 1000 employees

💸 Finance

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

Description

• About Us • Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink. • Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. • About The Role • As an Engineering Manager in our Decentralised-Oracle-Network (DON) Coordination team, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating Chainlink’s ability to go after projects that empower internal product builders to self-serve their Chainlink node deployments, upgrades and maintenance. • You will lead the DON-as-a-Service (DaaS) Team. • You will drive our self-service infrastructure narrative further. • This work will feed directly into the Chainlink Enterprise vision, bringing DaaS to external customers. • Commitment to Equal Opportunity • Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances. • Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants • Information collected and processed as part of your Chainlink Labs Careers profile is subject to our Privacy Policy.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years experience in software engineering roles, along with at least 3 years in a software development management role leading a team of 3+ people. • Demonstrated ability to identify and eliminate toil within teams or systems, reducing friction and improving operational efficiency. • Proficiency in using data to influence decisions, avoiding reliance on command/control methods. Ability to communicate persuasively without resorting to emotion or hyperbole. • Extensive experience with cloud infrastructure technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and best practices in deploying and managing scalable, highly available systems. • Successful track record of shaping and maturing infrastructure to support company growth and evolving business needs. • Proven ability to develop and mentor engineers, facilitating their career growth and promoting individuals to the next career level. • Experience in managing performance issues, including turnaround situations and handling departures with professionalism and fairness. • Experience or knowledge of blockchain technology, Web3 protocols, and the challenges related to developing large, distributed systems. • Demonstrated ability to identify and eliminate toil across diverse teams or systems, contributing to overall operational efficiency even outside direct responsibilities. • Proven track record of using data to influence decisions at the team or project level, employing factual analysis over command/control methods and avoiding emotional or hyperbolic influences. • Extensive hands-on experience working with or managing cloud infrastructure teams, including proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, Kubernetes (K8s), and the Grafana observability stack. • Experience in Golang or any other strongly-typed programming language preferred. • Background as an SRE or Infrastructure Manager, with a focus on managing highly visible, high-scale systems critical to the core business of the company. • Track record in a successful company that has significantly scaled engineering teams and undergone multiple major infrastructure and/or workflow replacements, navigating challenges and ensuring continuity of critical services.