Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Infrastructure

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About the role

  • Senior SRE operating streaming, Kubernetes and data infrastructure for Chainlink’s blockchain oracle platform. Improving reliability, scalability, automation and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Own the reliability and operational performance of large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructure
  • Strengthen production operation of streaming and Kubernetes workloads
  • Manage infrastructure changes through repeatable, version-controlled practices
  • Improve scalability and operational efficiency of infrastructure used by engineering teams
  • Deliver streaming and data infrastructure for CRE, CCIP, Data Feeds and Data Streams
  • Translate product requirements into reliable Redpanda/Kafka and Flink capabilities
  • Maintain 99.9% availability for critical data infrastructure as usage grows
  • Scale streaming and Kubernetes workloads and resolve throughput and recovery bottlenecks
  • Define service-level indicators reflecting consuming-service experience
  • Reduce recurring incidents, manual interventions and routine maintenance through automation, actionable alerts, tested recovery procedures and vulnerability remediation
  • Connect Redpanda topic traffic, Flink processing and BigQuery usage to consuming teams and services
  • Establish reusable infrastructure modules, deployment workflows and documentation
  • Enable engineering teams to provision, test, scale and retire AWS and Kubernetes resources independently
  • Establish visibility into infrastructure consumers, service adoption, reliability, cost and maintenance effort
  • Overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience operating large-scale distributed systems and scalable data processing infrastructure in production
  • Experience managing availability, consistency, failure modes and performance trade-offs
  • Production experience operating Kafka or Kafka-compatible streaming platforms such as Redpanda
  • Hands-on experience with capacity planning, performance tuning and troubleshooting
  • Experience provisioning and managing production infrastructure using Terraform
  • Experience with version-controlled, reviewed and repeatable infrastructure changes
  • Experience deploying, operating and troubleshooting production Kubernetes workloads
  • Experience with resource management, scaling and safe rollouts
  • Preferred: reusable infrastructure modules, self-service capabilities and CI/CD workflows
  • Preferred: Apache Flink pipelines in production, including monitoring, failure diagnosis and recovery
  • Preferred: AWS Aurora/RDS, including provisioning, backup and recovery, failover, rightsizing and cost optimization
  • Preferred: advanced experience with Apache Flink, Redpanda/Kafka, Iceberg, PostgreSQL, Airflow or Trino
  • Preferred: production-quality Java and/or Go
  • Preferred: contributions to open-source infrastructure or data projects
  • Resume/CV must be submitted in English
  • Applicants must answer whether they require visa sponsorship in their location
  • Blockchain/crypto experience is requested in the application form

Benefits

  • Global and remote-based work arrangement
  • Opportunity to work on Chainlink infrastructure powering capital markets and decentralized finance
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Disability or special-needs accommodation during application and recruitment
  • Potential future contact regarding relevant job openings, newsletters, and recruitment-related communications (with consent)

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AirflowApacheAWSBigQueryDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaKubernetesPostgresTerraformGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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