Senior Software Engineer, Dev Services
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 play a key role in expanding developer capabilities across the CRE platform by building scalable platform services and developer tooling. You'll drive improvements that reduce operational silos, strengthen platform reliability, and deliver a best-in-class developer experience for internal engineering teams and external developers. You'll work across the CLI, Go SDK, TypeScript SDK, and frontend services, and take on shared ownership of production systems and on-call responsibilities.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience developing and operating software systems at scale
- Built and maintained production backend applications and APIs serving multiple stakeholders
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems
- Advanced proficiency developing production software in Go
- Independently owned complex technical initiatives from design through production delivery while navigating ambiguous requirements
- Delivered high-quality implementations with strong engineering rigor and attention to reliability and quality
- Experience with several of the following: data pipelines and processing, observability platforms, customer-facing applications or developer tools with a strong UX focus, large-scale SQL data systems, gRPC services, low-latency systems, or consensus algorithms
- Developed software in TypeScript and/or Solidity
- Demonstrated interest in blockchain and Web3 technologies
- Track record of partnering closely with product, sales, marketing, customer-facing teams, or directly with customers
- Experience building decentralized applications (dApps)
- Experience developing banking infrastructure or other financial software
Responsibilities
- Deliver core capabilities across the CLI, Go SDK, TypeScript SDK, and frontend services that enable developers to build more effectively on the CRE platform
- Improve vertical and horizontal scalability across critical platform services
- Increase workflow execution durability and platform reliability for developer-facing systems
- Reduce knowledge silos by expanding ownership across critical components of the CRE platform
- Elevate the developer experience through high-quality platform APIs, tooling, and SDK improvements
- Strengthen operational resilience by increasing shared ownership of production systems and on-call responsibilities
Benefits
- Long-term incentives
- Comprehensive benefits