Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainlink Labs is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). As a software engineer on the Data Products team, you’ll collaborate with a technical team to develop highly scalable and reliable software that transforms smart contract functionality, focusing on Data Feeds.
Responsibilities
- Designing and implementing new features within the Data Product space, such as trust-minimized off-chain computation & the aggregation of external data in various blockchain environments, and many more problems
- Design and own the end to end delivery of new and existing data products that power the largest market share of Defi by total value secured (TVS)
- Learn more about the underlying technology in the blockchain ecosystem (Solana, Avalanche, Polygon, Ethereum, and more)
- Build our core products with Smart Contracts using Solidity, Move, and Rust
- Partner with the research team to build cutting-edge products
- Think creatively about attack vectors, possible failures, and disaster scenarios, modeling them in reproducible test environments, and developing fixes
- Managing the architectural vision for new subsystems in the core Chainlink node
- Implementing resilient distributed systems to achieve extremely high reliability in a variety of blockchain environments
Skills
- At least 7-10+ years of professional software engineering experience working in a collaborative product-driven environment
- Experience in blockchain and other Web 3.0 technologies
- Experience developing smart contracts that secured meaningful value on-chain
- Knowledge of computer science fundamentals and systems design concepts
- Experience owning multi month long projects, including communication of progress, dependencies, and risk mitigation directly with stakeholders and partners
- Experience building distributed systems and low-latency systems
- B.S. or higher in computer science, software engineering, mathematics or related technical field
- Experience in Golang or any other strongly-typed programming language
- Experience working with a globally distributed team
- Experience working in or with market data
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