VP Engineering, Data & CCIP

Chainlink Labs

VP of Engineering responsible for scaling decentralized finance infrastructure and driving organizational excellence at Chainlink. Leading Data Products and CCIP teams with high-impact engineering standards.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Scale and evolve a high-performing engineering organization, maintaining a high talent bar while adapting team structure to support rapid growth and changing priorities
Define and drive architecture for mission-critical systems powering data delivery and cross-chain communication with strict uptime and reliability requirements
Establish engineering standards and practices that elevate system design quality, operational rigor, and long-term maintainability across teams
Ensure resilient, fault-tolerant infrastructure capable of operating in adversarial and financially sensitive environments
Influence company-wide technical direction through hands-on contributions, design leadership, and cross-functional alignment
Represent engineering in high-stakes internal and external contexts, shaping product and infrastructure strategy

Requirements

What you’ll need

Scaled an engineering organization of 60+ engineers through periods of growth and change, including restructuring teams and making high-velocity hiring and performance management decisions
Owned production systems with 99.99%+ uptime requirements in adversarial or financially consequential environments, including direct accountability for incident response and root cause analysis
Made high-impact architectural decisions under real-world constraints and elevated engineering standards across teams beyond direct reporting lines
Demonstrated deep technical fluency in distributed data systems, including tradeoffs across latency, reliability, and data delivery guarantees in real-time or near-real-time environments
Clear, informed conviction in blockchain technology, supported by hands-on engagement with crypto ecosystems and the ability to articulate a perspective on its importance.

Benefits

Comp & perks

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, 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.
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Hard Skills & Tools

architecture designsystem designincident responseroot cause analysisdistributed data systemsdata delivery guaranteeslatency managementreliability engineeringfault-tolerant infrastructureperformance management

Soft Skills

leadershipcross-functional alignmentcommunicationinfluencestrategic thinkingteam restructuringhigh-velocity hiringdecision-makingadaptabilityconviction