Senior Site Reliability Engineer, CCIP

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, CCIP LocationCharlotte; Argentina; Brazil; Canada; Colombia; Las Vegas; Mexico; Phoenix; TampaEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeRemoteDepartmentEngineeringCompensationRemote - U.S. locationsAnnual cash range: $129K – $244KSpainAnnual cash range: €68K – €176KThe estimated cash compensation for this role is based on job-related factors including relevant skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location. Chainlink Labs follows a zone-based compensation model. In addition to competitive cash compensation, Chainlink Labs provides long-term incentives and comprehensive benefits. Actual compensation packages are discussed and finalized during the offer process.Note: For select sales roles, the cash compensation range represents a combination of base salary and sales commission.About ChainlinkChainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). 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.Many 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 chain.link.About the RoleAs a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the CCIP Platform team, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of the systems powering Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP). This role exists to strengthen production resilience, reduce operational toil, and enable engineering teams to ship safely while maintaining high service availability. You will influence reliability practices across the platform and help establish operational standards that scale with the business.Your ImpactImprove 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.RequirementsDemonstrated 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.Preferred RequirementsDemonstrated 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...