Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
Chainlink Labs helped pioneer decentralized finance and now works with the world's largest financial institutions to enable transactions across the tokenized asset economy. It builds and operates the Chainlink platform, serving financial market infrastructures, asset managers, and top DeFi protocols.
About Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs is a company at the center of the shift of global finance onchain, working with financial market infrastructures, asset managers, and leading DeFi protocols. The company employs a world-class team of over 600 developers, researchers, and capital markets experts with deep experience in cryptography and decentralized systems, working toward building Chainlink into the global standard for onchain finance. Chainlink Labs operates a unified platform powering a global system of onchain finance across DeFi and TradFi, enabling significant transaction value across a multi-chain ecosystem, and has been battle-tested on mainnet for years with a strong security track record. Its clients and partners span capital markets, DeFi, gaming, and other major verticals, including partnerships with institutions such as ANZ Bank, DTCC, Swift, Sygnum, Fidelity International, and Fireblocks.
Skills
About the Role
You will define and execute the strategy for internal infrastructure platforms, build and operate scalable cloud and Kubernetes-based systems, and ensure high availability and compliance. You will improve provisioning workflows to speed time to production, maintain uptime SLOs, and implement secure access control and CI/CD infrastructure.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating internal infrastructure platforms on public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including provisioning, scaling, and reliability engineering
- Led and managed software or infrastructure engineering teams for 3+ years, including hiring, developing, and retaining talent
- Demonstrated ownership of Kubernetes at scale, including building or leading a K8s-based internal platform
- Operated effectively in startup environments and navigated ambiguity with lean teams
- Experience supporting SOC2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 compliance in infrastructure provisioning and access control
- Familiarity with CI/CD ecosystems, runners, secrets management, and cloud networking
- Understanding of security best practices in software delivery and secure artifact management
- Exposure to blockchain technologies, decentralized applications, or Web3 infrastructure
- Experience with globally distributed remote-first engineering teams
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation using Go-based tooling or GitHub Actions
Responsibilities
- Deliver a scalable internal infrastructure platform on public cloud environments
- Establish and evolve Kubernetes-based platform capabilities to support production-grade workloads
- Maintain 99.9% uptime SLOs for infrastructure systems critical to product delivery
- Improve provisioning workflows to reduce operational friction and enable faster time to production
- Ensure infrastructure meets SOC2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 compliance via robust access control and provisioning standards
- Build and maintain secure foundations that support CI/CD pipelines and minimize operational risk
- Enable product teams to reliably provision, deploy, and operate systems at scale
