Senior Software Engineer, Data Products

Chainlink Labs is the company behind the industry-standard oracle platform bringing capital markets onchain and powering decentralized finance. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Products team to build highly scalable, secure, and reliable software for Data Feeds and other blockchain data products, with responsibilities spanning smart contracts, distributed systems, and end-to-end product delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing new features within the Data Product space, such as trust-minimized off-chain computation & the aggregation of external data in various blockchain environments, and many more problems
• Design and own the end to end delivery of new and existing data products that power the largest market share of Defi by total value secured (TVS)
• Learn more about the underlying technology in the blockchain ecosystem (Solana, Avalanche, Polygon, Ethereum, and more)
• Build our core products with Smart Contracts using Solidity, Move, and Rust
• Partner with the research team to build cutting-edge products
• Think creatively about attack vectors, possible failures, and disaster scenarios, modeling them in reproducible test environments, and developing fixes
• Managing the architectural vision for new subsystems in the core Chainlink node
• Implementing resilient distributed systems to achieve extremely high reliability in a variety of blockchain environments

Requirements:

• At least 7-10+ years of professional software engineering experience working in a collaborative product-driven environment
• Experience in blockchain and other Web 3.0 technologies
• Experience developing smart contracts that secured meaningful value on-chain
• Knowledge of computer science fundamentals and systems design concepts
• Experience owning multi month long projects, including communication of progress, dependencies, and risk mitigation directly with stakeholders and partners
• Experience building distributed systems and low-latency systems
• B.S. or higher in computer science, software engineering, mathematics or related technical field
• Experience in Golang or any other strongly-typed programming language
• Experience working with a globally distributed team
• Experience working in or with market data