Engineering Manager, Data Streams
About Us
Chainlink Labs is the primary developer of Chainlink, a decentralized computing platform that powers the verifiable web. We collaborate with major financial institutions and top Web3 teams to create applications for banking, DeFi, global trade, and gaming.
The Engineering Team
At Chainlink Labs, our engineering team plays a crucial role in advancing decentralized applications and the Chainlink Network, which has a dominant market share in the oracle space. We are seeking talented and driven individuals who enjoy working collaboratively to solve complex challenges and make an impact in the world of blockchain technology and decentralized finance.
About the Role
As a software engineering manager on the Data Streams team, you will lead a team of up to eight engineers in building low latency data products that enhance decentralized finance. You will work closely with various functions at Chainlink, ensuring the release of reliable and high-performance products across multiple blockchains and users. Reporting to the senior engineering manager of Data Products, you will play a critical role in securing the reliability of our networks and incentivizing good behavior.
Your Impact
- Leading and supporting up to eight engineers, focusing on their growth and enabling them to make a significant impact
- Using your deep understanding of both product and engineering to ensure the development of data products that meet the security, reliability, and performance requirements of decentralized finance
- Overseeing the end-to-end development of data products, including tooling, monitoring, alerting, and orchestrating decentralized oracle networks
- Collaborating closely with product, leadership, and go-to-market teams to create winning products that unlock new capabilities for our users
- Working with non-technical stakeholders to align on scope and delivery timelines, and ensure the team is meeting business goals
- Adapting quickly to an evolving ecosystem and maintaining focus on work
- Establishing effective team processes, project management, and team health to drive high productivity and morale
- Recruiting talented engineers to elevate the team and company
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a leadership or managerial role
- Strong experience in delivering and supporting critical online services that are highly available and reliable
- Foster a servant leadership mindset and possess the ability to inspire and motivate others
- Experience working on globally-distributed teams and taking ownership of tasks
- Track record of leading the successful delivery of multiple impactful products, meeting high quality standards and timelines
- Ability to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align on scope and delivery expectations
- Experience navigating ambiguous and changing product requirements and successfully delivering winning products
Preferred Requirements
- Familiarity with financial data sets and experience working with or producing high-quality finance/fintech data from multiple sources
- Knowledge of complex financial products
- Technical expertise in designing and scaling data infrastructure and distributed systems architecture
- Strong operational skills and the ability to balance speed and quality pragmatically
- Experienced in developing secure smart contracts that hold significant value
- Experience collaborating with teams across different time zones
- Active participant in the blockchain ecosystem as a user
- Proficiency in solidity, golang, SQL
All roles with Chainlink Labs are globally remote-based. We prefer candidates who can overlap working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).
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