Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability About Chainlink Chainlink is the industry‑standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets on‑chain 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 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. The Observability Team enables Chainlink development and empowers engineers to continue building and supporting crucial products and services that have a profound impact in the blockchain industry. Reliability is vital to the success of our company. As a Senior SRE, you will help us accelerate and enable other engineering teams by increasing self‑service and decreasing cognitive load. This job would be perfect for someone who has a strong DevOps mentality, is passionate about building and maintaining a mature GitOps environment, and has experience focusing on observability. The entire engineering team is expanding, and you would have plenty of opportunities to build, learn, and grow. We all have different backgrounds and are determined to help you succeed no matter where you are or who you are. If you think you would do a great job at Chainlink, we are looking forward to speaking with you, even if you don’t match 100 % of the job requirements. Your Impact Build and orchestrate a modern OTEL‑based observability platform Support multiple telemetry types, like metrics, logs, and traces Define and support modern governance in observability and problems at scale Ensure reliability, security, and performance exceed our defined SLAs Work with engineers from across the company to help troubleshoot issues, deploy new products and services, and increase velocity while decreasing cognitive load Lead the design and deployment of monitoring/observability services to detect and alert the team of needed action Ingest, aggregate, transform, and utilize data from a multitude of sources in our real‑time data pipeline Oversee the availability, performance, and supportability of our observability infrastructure Create processes around alert response operations and support the team to ensure the reliable delivery of oracle data Make recommendations to ensure sufficient metrics are collected to create alerts with every new feature release Champion reliability and security by taking the time to do your work right the first time Requirements 7+ years of relevant professional experience, typically on a devops, infrastructure, SRE, or platform team Ability to develop software outside the scope of typical infrastructure requirements and configurations Experience programming in C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby Expert knowledge in all aspects of designing, developing, and managing large real‑time systems Experience with monitoring and logging: export metrics using Prometheus, build Grafana dashboards, use a centralized logging solution such as an ELK stack, Splunk, or Grafana stack Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration, including building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters Strong communication skills, able to give and receive constructive feedback, and not shy away from planning meetings and code reviews Desired Qualifications Excitement for blockchain, Web 3.0, and similar decentralized technologies Experience running infrastructure in the blockchain/Web3 space Ability to scale systems sustainably through automation and evolving systems to improve reliability and velocity Experience working remotely in a distributed team A strong desire to grow and challenge yourself, constantly finding ways to improve and automate services to reduce toil Tools and Services Used Daily AWS; Terraform/Terragrunt; Kubernetes, Calico and ArgoCD; Prometheus and Grafana; GitHub Actions; Packer Commitment to Equal Opportunity Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. 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