• At least 4 years of relevant professional experience. You probably have worked on a release engineering, devops, infrastructure, SRE, and/or platform team before
• Experience in building and deploying or extending an internal, ephemeral test and development environments to reduce cognitive burden and increase efficiency of engineering teams
• Have led large cross-team initiatives and can demonstrate a successful track record with quantifiable metrics that impact the business
• Practical experience in shell scripting and demonstrable skills in at least one higher-level language such as Python, Golang, or similar
• Systems engineering experience (can operate code - Linux, command line, bash, cloud infra)
• Previous experience working with software releases. You have been involved in either releasing software or have worked closely with other teams in the process
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines monitoring, logging, alerting is a plus
• Responsible for code pipelines (CI/CD) which have been used to build, test and deploy software to production
• Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration
• Experience with git for software version control
• Strong communication skills. You can give and receive constructive feedback, and you do not shy away from planning meetings and code reviews
• Familiar with most tools from our stack
• This job would be perfect for someone who has a strong DevOps mentality, is passionate about building and maintaining a mature GitOps environment, and has experience building and growing an internal developer platform

Desirable

• The Infrastructure Platform team enables Chainlink development and empowers engineers to continue building and supporting crucial products and services that have a profound impact in the blockchain industry
• As a staff SRE, you will help us accelerate and enable other engineering teams by increasing self-service and decreasing cognitive load
• Key initiatives surrounding our mission include architecting and building a services catalog and an internal developer platform
• Our on-call rotation uses the follow-the-sun pattern: you will be on-call some of the time, but your shifts will be during your day and our team is large
• Build and orchestrate large, distributed infrastructure with a focus on automation
• Shape the resilience, efficiency, and scalability of our services
• Partner with engineers from across the company to help troubleshoot issues, deploy solutions, and accelerate their velocity
• Innovate and enhance the infrastructure platform team’s product offerings to increase self service, improve cost optimization, and reduce toil
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to your team and others
• Champion best practices in reliability, security, and cloud infrastructure to help cultivate a culture of high operational standards