Senior Site Reliability Engineer, CCIP

Chainlink Labs

Senior Site Reliability Engineer ensuring operational excellence of Chainlink's CCIP platform. Focused on enhancing reliability, scalability, and operational standards across engineering teams.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeRemote • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $129,000 - $244,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Expertise in Site Reliability Engineering and Production Engineering with a focus on improving system reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. Proficient in implementing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to enhance service health and engineering efficiency.

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Site Reliability EngineeringProduction EngineeringSLOs, SLIs, And Error BudgetsKubernetes EnvironmentsOpenTelemetry

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Hard Skills

Distributed SystemsOperational ExcellenceDeployment SafetyProduction Engineering PracticesAutomationObservabilityIncident InvestigationEngineering EfficiencyPlatform ScalabilityOperational Readiness

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesOpenTelemetry

Industry Keywords

Cross-Chain Interoperability ProtocolReliability PracticesOperational StandardsProduction Infrastructure

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of the systems powering Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP).
Influence reliability practices across the platform and help establish operational standards that scale with the business.
Improve deployment safety and increase delivery velocity by advancing production engineering practices.
Establish distributed tracing across the platform to improve observability and accelerate incident investigation.
Eliminate operational toil through automation that increases engineering efficiency and platform reliability.
Drive adoption of meaningful SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets that guide engineering decisions and improve service health.
Increase platform scalability and operational readiness as CCIP continues to grow.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or a similar role operating large-scale distributed systems.
Deep expertise defining, implementing, and driving adoption of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across engineering organizations.
Built and operated production Kubernetes environments supporting critical services.
Applied OpenTelemetry to improve observability across distributed systems.
Experience improving the reliability, scalability, and operability of production infrastructure.

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