Staff Software Engineer, CCIP

Chainlink Labs; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their talented team in revolutionizing decentralized infrastructure. This role involves designing and implementing features for a groundbreaking product that enables secure cross-chain communication. As part of a collaborative environment, you will work with experienced engineers and contribute to the development of scalable software that transforms smart contract functionality. If you are passionate about blockchain technology and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with a focus on blockchain.
• Expert-level experience with Golang and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new features for the CCIP product.
• Build automation for managing smart contracts and production releases.

Skills

Blockchain technologies

Software development

Project management

Debugging skills

Test-driven development

Communication skills

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

M.S. in Software Engineering

Tools

Golang

TypeScript

Solidity

Postgres

Terraform

AWS

Job description

About Us

Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking, DeFi, global trade, and gaming by collaborating with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, notably Swift, DTCC, and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top Web3 teams, including Aave, Compound, GMX, Maker, and Synthetix. Chainlink Labs was ranked in Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2023 in both the United States and United Kingdom.

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer working on Chainlink, you’ll collaborate with an experienced technical team of senior engineers, distributed systems computing experts, and security experts, who are all committed to building world-changing decentralized infrastructure. You’ll develop and build highly scalable, secure, and reliable software that will change the way smart contracts function at a fundamental level.

You will help build an open-sourced standard for developers to quickly build secure cross-chain services and applications. With a universal messaging interface, smart contracts can communicate across multiple blockchain networks, eliminating the need for developers to write custom code for building chain-specific integrations. CCIP opens up a new category of Web3.0 applications that can be built by developers for a multi-chain ecosystem.

Your Impact:

• Designing and implementing new features within the CCIP product and contributing towards bringing new features into production
• Thinking creatively about attack vectors, possible failures, and disaster scenarios, modeling them in reproducible test environments, and developing fixes
• Build automation to manage and deploy smart contracts and other required tooling to manage the production releases
• Build Network Health Monitoring ie, funnel data to Observability, collect valuable metrics, and set up alerts/dashboards

Requirements:

• Strong interest in blockchain and other Web 3.0 technologies
• Successful experience designing, building and scaling a production service
• Experience owning multi-quarter projects, including planning, work breakdown, communication of progress, dependencies and risk mitigation
• Experience working directly with product, stakeholders, and non-technical partners
• Focused on building great products and willing to learn a range of technologies to do so
• Experience partnering with product to plan and successfully deliver against a year+ long roadmap
• At least 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Expert-level experience with Golang or any other strongly typed programming language
• Experience developing web applications/services and backend APIs
• Experience with building distributed systems and understanding of system design concepts
• Experience with test-driven development and use of testing frameworks
• Experience with observability (setting up data pipelines, alerts, and dashboards)
• Excellent debugging skills with attention to detail and ability to write the scripts as required
• Experience with Solidity (big plus)
• Comfort and/or experience working as a remote employee as a part of a distributed team
• Ability to write and communicate effectively
• Preferred B.S. or higher in computer science, software engineering, or related technical field

Our Stack:

Golang, TypeScript, Solidity, Postgres, Terraform, AWS

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