Engineering Manager, Data Feeds

Chainlink Labs; New York (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainlink Labs is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive the Data Feeds infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and high availability for enterprise-grade DeFi data services.

You will mentor senior engineers, set architecture direction, and collaborate with product and other teams to translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps while maintaining rigorous operational standards and customer focus.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production blockchain infrastructure at scale.
• Proven ability to influence architecture and lead senior engineers.
• Strong balance of delivery, quality, reliability, and maintainability.
• Experience leading planning, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience with highly available, customer-facing production infra.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering team delivering reliable, scalable Data Feeds infrastructure.
• Establish clear ownership and high technical standards.
• Translate priorities into executable roadmaps with Product and leadership.
• Provide architectural and operational judgment balancing delivery and maintainability.
• Coach senior engineers and technical leads to grow leadership capacity.
• Improve engineering planning, prioritization, and execution.
• Champion operational excellence for production services.
• Foster collaboration across teams to solve distributed systems challenges.

Skills

Blockchain infrastructure

Technical leadership

Engineering judgment

Roadmap planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Production systems

Communication skills

Mentoring engineers

Job description

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

Working closely with Product, Technical Leads, and peer Engineering Managers, you will enable the delivery of complex distributed systems that underpin decentralized applications and financial markets, while fostering an engineering culture grounded in technical excellence, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.

Data Feeds is one of Chainlink's foundational products, providing trusted, high-quality data that powers decentralized applications across the blockchain ecosystem. The team is responsible for operating and evolving critical infrastructure that supports some of the industry's most widely used decentralized finance protocols.

Your Impact

• 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.

Required Skills

• 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.

Preferred Skills

• 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.

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).

We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes. The closing date is listed on the job advert, so we encourage you to take the time to thoughtfully prepare your application. We want to fully consider your experience and skills, and you will hear from us regarding the status of your application shortly after the closing date.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us via this form.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants

Information collected and processed as part of your Chainlink Labs Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit, is subject to our Recruiting Privacy Policy. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.