Senior Site Reliability Engineer, CCIP

Chainlink Labs is the industry-standard oracle platform powering decentralized finance. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the CCIP Platform team, you will ensure the reliability and operational excellence of systems while influencing reliability practices and establishing operational standards.

Responsibilities:

• 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:

• 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
• 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