Engineering Manager - DON Coordination

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 an Engineering Manager in our Decentralised-Oracle-Network (DON) Coordination team, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating Chainlink’s ability to go after projects that empower internal product builders to self-serve their Chainlink node deployments, upgrades and maintenance. This includes establishing secure access patterns and promoting best practices.
In this role, you will lead the DON-as-a-Service (DaaS) Team. Leading the team day-to-day, with a primary focus on people and performance management while being a pace-setter. Through a close partnership with product, their manager and partner teams, they will align and then execute on a roadmap that synergises with the company’s global priorities. From there, you will drive our self-service infrastructure narrative further. Providing an "as-a-service" platform to deploy Chainlink nodes and compose DONs made up of third-party node operators. Moreover, this work will feed directly into the Chainlink Enterprise vision, bringing DaaS to external customers.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years experience in software engineering roles, along with at least 3 years in a software development management role leading a team of 3+ people

• Demonstrated ability to identify and eliminate toil within teams or systems, reducing friction and improving operational efficiency.

• Proficiency in using data to influence decisions, avoiding reliance on command/control methods. Ability to communicate persuasively without resorting to emotion or hyperbole.

• Extensive experience with cloud infrastructure technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and best practices in deploying and managing scalable, highly available systems.

• Successful track record of shaping and maturing infrastructure to support company growth and evolving business needs.

• Proven ability to develop and mentor engineers, facilitating their career growth and promoting individuals to the next career level.

• Experience in managing performance issues, including turnaround situations and handling departures with professionalism and fairness.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience or knowledge of blockchain technology, Web3 protocols, and the challenges related to developing large, distributed systems

• Demonstrated ability to identify and eliminate toil across diverse teams or systems, contributing to overall operational efficiency even outside direct responsibilities.

• Proven track record of using data to influence decisions at the team or project level, employing factual analysis over command/control methods and avoiding emotional or hyperbolic influences.

• Extensive hands-on experience working with or managing cloud infrastructure teams, including proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, Kubernetes (K8s), and the Grafana observability stack.

• Experience in Golang or any other strongly-typed programming language preferred

• Background as an SRE or Infrastructure Manager, with a focus on managing highly visible, high-scale systems critical to the core business of the company.

• Track record in a successful company that has significantly scaled engineering teams and undergone multiple major infrastructure and/or workflow replacements, navigating challenges and ensuring continuity of critical services.

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