Engineering Manager, Data Feeds

Chainlink Labs operates Chainlink, an oracle platform providing data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy infrastructure for blockchain and decentralized finance applications. The Engineering Manager, Data Feeds will lead the engineering team responsible for reliable, scalable Data Feeds infrastructure, while guiding technical execution, operational excellence, architectural decisions, and people development.

Responsibilities:

• Lead an engineering team responsible for delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure supporting the Data Feeds product
• Establish clear engineering ownership, enabling teams to execute predictably while maintaining high standards of technical quality and operational excellence
• Partner with Product and technical leadership to translate strategic priorities into well-executed engineering roadmaps
• Provide engineering judgment to support the team in makeing sound architectural and operational decisions while balancing delivery, reliability, and long-term maintainability
• Coach and develop senior engineers and technical leads, expanding leadership capacity across the organization
• Drive improvements to engineering planning, prioritization, and execution while reducing unnecessary coordination overhead
• Champion operational excellence by maintaining and improving the reliability and health of customer-facing production services
• Foster collaboration across engineering teams to solve complex distributed systems challenges and support continued product evolution

Requirements:

• Deep experience building and operating production blockchain infrastructure at scale
• Demonstrated technical leadership and engineering judgment with the credibility to influence architectural decisions and earn the trust of senior engineers
• Strong engineering judgment, balancing product delivery, technical quality, operational reliability, and long-term system health
• Proven experience leading engineering execution through effective planning, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration
• Experience building and operating highly available, customer-facing production infrastructure
• Strong understanding of blockchain or oracle infrastructure, backend platform architecture, and operational best practices
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing experienced software engineers and technical leaders
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering and product organizations
• All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST)
• Experience partnering closely with Product organizations to deliver complex technical roadmaps
• Familiarity with financial markets, trading infrastructure, market data systems, or other mission-critical financial technology
• Experience applying AI tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity and software delivery
• Experience with decentralized infrastructure supporting Web3 ecosystems