Senior Software Engineer, Chainlink Runtime
Chainlink Labs develops and supports Chainlink.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs is a technology company focused on building Chainlink as infrastructure for onchain finance. Its current platform includes decentralized data feeds and streams, cross-chain messaging, automation, verifiable randomness, serverless functions, compliance, privacy, data publishing, and runtime-orchestration services for financial institutions, developers, and DeFi protocols.
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About the Role
This senior engineering role focuses on building reliable, scalable, production-grade backend services and APIs for the Chainlink Runtime Environment platform. The engineer will improve workflow durability, platform resilience, architecture, testing, and operational excellence while partnering across engineering teams.
Requirements
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production platforms.
- Advanced proficiency developing production systems in Go.
- Experience building production APIs and backend applications for multiple stakeholders.
- Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver reliable, high-quality software through rigorous engineering practices.
- Strong systems thinking and ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs.
- High ownership, technical curiosity, and continuous learning.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills in cross-functional engineering environments.
- Experience with SLOs and SLIs.
- Experience with TypeScript, Solidity, or additional backend technologies.
- Interest in blockchain infrastructure and Web3 technologies.
- Experience building decentralized applications.
- Experience with financial infrastructure, banking systems, or other mission-critical distributed platforms.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate highly scalable platform services for CRE reliability and performance.
- Lead development of production-grade backend services and APIs for internal stakeholders and platform consumers.
- Drive architectural improvements supporting vertical and horizontal scaling.
- Improve workflow execution durability and platform resilience through engineering, testing, and operational excellence.
- Deliver cross-functional platform initiatives from architectural design through production deployment.
- Reduce operational silos and improve documentation, shared knowledge, and platform ownership.
- Improve platform reliability through measurable service reliability practices.
Benefits
- Long-term incentives
- Comprehensive benefits
- Remote work options
Hiring Process
Applications are carefully reviewed, and the company aims to respond to every candidate within two weeks after the posting closes. The closing date is listed on the job advert.
