Senior Software Engineer, Data Streams (Web3)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Web3): Building and operating the low-latency, high-reliability infrastructure behind Chainlink Data Streams with an accent on uptime, performance, and correctness. Focus on designing and shipping distributed systems at scale and owning production reliability.

Location: Remote (United States, Toronto, Argentina, São Paulo, Ciudad de México, Bogota)

Company

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi).

What you will do

• Design and build high-performance Go services for low-latency data streaming.
• Architect scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and evaluate technical trade-offs.
• 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.

Nice to have

• 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.

Culture & Benefits

• All roles are global and remote-based.
• Try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).
• Equal opportunity employer.