Engineering Manager, Data Feeds

Chainlink Labs is the industry-standard oracle platform powering decentralized finance (DeFi). The Engineering Manager for Data Feeds will lead a team responsible for delivering high-quality infrastructure that supports critical decentralized applications and financial markets.

Responsibilities:

• Lead an engineering team responsible for delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure supporting the Data Feeds product
• Establish clear engineering ownership, enabling teams to execute predictably while maintaining high standards of technical quality and operational excellence
• Partner with Product and technical leadership to translate strategic priorities into well-executed engineering roadmaps
• Provide engineering judgment to support the team in making sound architectural and operational decisions while balancing delivery, reliability, and long-term maintainability
• Coach and develop senior engineers and technical leads, expanding leadership capacity across the organization
• Drive improvements to engineering planning, prioritization, and execution while reducing unnecessary coordination overhead
• Champion operational excellence by maintaining and improving the reliability and health of customer-facing production services
• Foster collaboration across engineering teams to solve complex distributed systems challenges and support continued product evolution

Requirements:

• Deep experience building and operating production blockchain infrastructure at scale
• Demonstrated technical leadership and engineering judgment with the credibility to influence architectural decisions and earn the trust of senior engineers
• Strong engineering judgment, balancing product delivery, technical quality, operational reliability, and long-term system health
• Proven experience leading engineering execution through effective planning, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration
• Experience building and operating highly available, customer-facing production infrastructure
• Strong understanding of blockchain or oracle infrastructure, backend platform architecture, and operational best practices
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing experienced software engineers and technical leaders
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering and product organizations
• Experience partnering closely with Product organizations to deliver complex technical roadmaps
• Familiarity with financial markets, trading infrastructure, market data systems, or other mission-critical financial technology
• Experience applying AI tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity and software delivery
• Experience with decentralized infrastructure supporting Web3 ecosystems