Site Reliability Engineer, Connectivity — Chainlink Labs

The Bitcoin Street Journal; Brasil; Remote; BRL 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainlink Labs is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate reliable production infrastructure for blockchain and backend systems. The role combines Kubernetes and cloud expertise with blockchain RPC and Go development to strengthen reliability across critical services.

You will focus on automating workflows, improving observability, and enhancing incident response. This is a remote, globally distributed position with overlap to EST hours where possible.

Qualifications

• Experience operating Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure in production environments.
• Applied knowledge of blockchain RPC architecture and node fundamentals in production or operational contexts.
• Built and operated production systems using Go and backend engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate reliable Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure for production blockchain and backend workloads.
• Improve the reliability and operational resilience of blockchain RPC and node infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain production Go and backend systems that underpin reliable infrastructure operations.
• Strengthen observability and reliability practices across production services and infrastructure.
• Improve incident readiness and operational response for production systems.
• Automate operational workflows to reduce manual effort and improve infrastructure reliability.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Blockchain RPC

Go

Incident response

Observability

Reliability engineering

On-call rotations

AI tooling

Cross-team communication

Job description

• Company: Chainlink Labs
• Sector: CryptoPerp
• Source: web3.career

About ChainlinkChainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.

Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.

About the Role

The Site Reliability Engineer role exists to build and operate reliable production infrastructure for blockchain and backend systems. The role combines Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure expertise with blockchain RPC and node fundamentals and production Go experience to strengthen the reliability and operation of critical systems.

Your Impact

• Build and operate reliable Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure for production blockchain and backend workloads.
• Improve the reliability and operational resilience of blockchain RPC and node infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain production Go and backend systems that underpin reliable infrastructure operations.
• Strengthen observability and reliability practices across production services and infrastructure.
• Improve incident readiness and operational response for production systems.
• Automate operational workflows to reduce manual effort and improve infrastructure reliability.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience operating Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure in production environments.
• Applied knowledge of blockchain RPC architecture and node fundamentals in production or operational contexts.
• Built and operated production systems using Go and backend engineering practices.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience participating in incident response and production on-call rotations.
• Applied observability and reliability engineering practices to production systems.
• Demonstrated clear written communication and effective cross-team coordination in technical environments.
• Experience operating infrastructure for non-EVM blockchain networks.
• Built or used AI-assisted tooling and automation for engineering or operational workflows.
• Experience setting up and managing blockchain validators.

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).

The closing date is listed on the job advert.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

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