• At least 3 years of relevant professional experience. You probably have worked on a devops, infrastructure, SRE, and/or platform team before
• Ability to develop software outside of the scope of typical infrastructure requirements and configurations
• Experience in deploying or extending an internal developer platform to reduce cognitive burden and increase efficiency of other 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
• Excellent understanding of Linux
• Expert knowledge in all aspects of designing, deploying, and supporting large real-time systems
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and end to end tracing is a plus
• Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration
• 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