Senior Software Engineer, Data Streams
Chainlink Labs
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Design and build high-performance Go services for low-latency data streaming
- Architect scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and evaluate technical trade-offs
- Break down complex, ambiguous problems into incremental, production-ready deliverables
- Own reliability through observability, alerting, and operational best practices
- Participate in an on-call rotation supporting critical infrastructure
- Lead code reviews and raise the bar for testing, maintainability, and system design
- Collaborate with product, SRE, and protocol teams to align technical execution with business goals
Requirements
- Expert-level Go experience, including concurrency, memory management, and idiomatic design
- Strong distributed systems and architectural design experience
- Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
- Experience planning and delivering large systems in incremental milestones
- Exposure to SRE practices, production operations, and modern infrastructure (e.g., Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform)
- Proven mentorship and ownership of code quality across a team
- Contributions to Go or infrastructure-focused open-source projects
- Deep expertise in a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or networking protocols
- Experience leading incident response, on-call rotations, or blameless post-mortems.
Benefits
- All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based.
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
Goconcurrencymemory managementarchitectural designdistributed systemsSRE practicesincident responseblameless post-mortemscode qualityincremental milestones
Soft Skills
communicationmentorshipownershipcollaborationproblem-solvingleadershipreliabilityobservabilityalertingtesting