Senior Software Engineer, Data Products — Remote & High-Impact DeFi

Chainlink Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainlink Labs is seeking a senior software engineer for the Data Products team. You will design and build highly scalable, secure data feeds and related services, collaborating with a distributed team to advance decentralized infrastructure.

You'll work on end-to-end delivery of data products powering DeFi platforms, learn about distributed systems, cryptography, and consensus algorithms, and contribute to the core Chainlink node with high autonomy.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of professional software engineering experience in a collaborative, product-driven environment.
• Experience in blockchain and other Web3 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.
• BS or higher in computer science, software engineering, mathematics or related technical field.

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

Skills

Professional software engineering (7-

Blockchain/Web3 experience

Smart contracts development

Distributed systems

Low-latency systems

Education

BS or higher in CS/Software Engineering/Math

Tools

Golang

Solidity

TypeScript

Rust

Postgres

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Chainlink Labs is seeking a senior software engineer for the Data Products team. You will design and build highly scalable, secure data feeds and related services, collaborating with a distributed team to advance decentralized infrastructure.

You'll work on end-to-end delivery of data products powering DeFi platforms, learn about distributed systems, cryptography, and consensus algorithms, and contribute to the core Chainlink node with high autonomy.