Senior Software Engineer, Data Streams

Chainlink Labs is the industry-standard oracle platform powering decentralized finance. The Senior Software Engineer will design and build high-performance Go services for low-latency data streaming, ensuring production reliability and collaborating with various teams to align technical execution with business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build high-performance Go services for low-latency data streaming
• Architect scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and evaluate technical trade-offs
• Break down complex, ambiguous problems into incremental, production-ready deliverables
• Own reliability through observability, alerting, and operational best practices
• Participate in an on-call rotation supporting critical infrastructure
• Lead code reviews and raise the bar for testing, maintainability, and system design
• Collaborate with product, SRE, and protocol teams to align technical execution with business goals

Requirements:

• Expert-level Go experience, including concurrency, memory management, and idiomatic design
• Strong distributed systems and architectural design experience
• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
• Experience planning and delivering large systems in incremental milestones
• Exposure to SRE practices, production operations, and modern infrastructure (e.g., Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform)
• Proven mentorship and ownership of code quality across a team
• Contributions to Go or infrastructure-focused open-source projects
• Deep expertise in a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or networking protocols
• Experience leading incident response, on-call rotations, or blameless post-mortems