The vacancy is well-structured, providing clear expectations and a competitive compensation package.
Job description
Chainlink 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.
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.
- 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.
Requirements
- At least 7-10+ years of professional software engineering experience working in a collaborative product-driven environment.
- Experience in blockchain and other Web 3.0 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.
- B.S. or higher in computer science, software engineering, mathematics or related technical field.
Conditions
- Competitive salary range of USD 129,000 - 304,000.
- All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based.
- Opportunity to work with a globally distributed team.
- Commitment to Equal Opportunity.
About Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the industry-standard decentralized oracle platform that connects blockchains with real-world data, offchain computation, and cross-chain interoperability. The platform powers verifiable applications across DeFi, banking, global trade, and gaming, having enabled over $20 trillion in transaction value.
Web3, Blockchain, DeFi, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), FinTech· 200-1000· New York, NY, United States· Founded 2017· https://chain.link/?ref=sailonchain.com