Chainlink Labs

Engineering Manager, Data Feeds

Chainlink Labs$130K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Deep experience in building and managing production blockchain infrastructure at scale.
  • Strong technical leadership with the ability to influence engineering decisions.
  • Proven experience ensuring a balance between product delivery, technical quality, and operational reliability.
  • Experience in leading engineering teams through planning and collaboration.
  • Expertise in developing highly available, customer-facing production systems.
  • Solid understanding of blockchain, oracle infrastructure, and backend architecture best practices.
  • Strong coaching skills for developing senior engineers and technical leads.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure for the Data Feeds product.
  • Establish clear ownership within engineering to maintain high-quality execution.
  • Collaborate with Product and technical teams to create effective engineering roadmaps.
  • Provide engineering judgment on architectural and operational decisions.
  • Coach senior engineers to enhance leadership capacity across the organization.
  • Drive improvements in engineering planning and execution process.
  • Champion operational excellence for customer-facing production services through reliability improvements.

Benefits

  • Global and remote work flexibility.
  • Opportunity to collaborate across diverse teams in the blockchain space.
  • Engage with one of the industry’s leading decentralized finance protocols.
  • A chance to influence the future of blockchain technology.
Full Job Description
The role

The Engineering Manager for Data Feeds will lead a critical area of the engineering organization responsible for one of Chainlink's flagship products. This role combines technical leadership, engineering judgment, and people leadership to ensure the team delivers high-quality, reliable infrastructure while balancing delivery, technical quality, and long-term maintainability..

Working closely with Product, Technical Leads, and peer Engineering Managers, you will enable the delivery of complex distributed systems that underpin decentralized applications and financial markets, while fostering an engineering culture grounded in technical excellence, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.

Data Feeds is one of Chainlink's foundational products, providing trusted, high-quality data that powers decentralized applications across the blockchain ecosystem. The team is responsible for operating and evolving critical infrastructure that supports some of the industry's most widely used decentralized finance protocols.

Your Impact
  • Lead an engineering team responsible for delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure supporting the Data Feeds product.
  • Establish clear engineering ownership, enabling teams to execute predictably while maintaining high standards of technical quality and operational excellence.
  • Partner with Product and technical leadership to translate strategic priorities into well-executed engineering roadmaps.
  • Provide engineering judgment to support the team in makeing sound architectural and operational decisions while balancing delivery, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Coach and develop senior engineers and technical leads, expanding leadership capacity across the organization.
  • Drive improvements to engineering planning, prioritization, and execution while reducing unnecessary coordination overhead.
  • Champion operational excellence by maintaining and improving the reliability and health of customer-facing production services.
  • Foster collaboration across engineering teams to solve complex distributed systems challenges and support continued product evolution.
Required Skills
  • Deep experience building and operating production blockchain infrastructure at scale.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership and engineering judgment with the credibility to influence architectural decisions and earn the trust of senior engineers.
  • Strong engineering judgment, balancing product delivery, technical quality, operational reliability, and long-term system health.
  • Proven experience leading engineering execution through effective planning, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Experience building and operating highly available, customer-facing production infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding of blockchain or oracle infrastructure, backend platform architecture, and operational best practices.
  • Experience leading, coaching, and developing experienced software engineers and technical leaders.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering and product organizations.
Preferred Skills
  • Experience partnering closely with Product organizations to deliver complex technical roadmaps.
  • Familiarity with financial markets, trading infrastructure, market data systems, or other mission-critical financial technology.
  • Experience applying AI tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity and software delivery.
  • Experience with decentralized infrastructure supporting Web3 ecosystems.

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes. The closing date is listed on the job advert, so we encourage you to take the time to thoughtfully prepare your application. We want to fully consider your experience and skills, and you will hear from us regarding the status of your application shortly after the closing date.

About Chainlink Labs

Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network that enables smart contracts to securely access off-chain data feeds, web APIs, and traditional bank payments. Chainlink is consistently selected as one of the top blockchain technologies by leading independent research firms such as Gartner. Chainlink's decentralized oracle network provides reliable tamper-proof inputs and outputs for complex smart contracts on any blockchain. Chainlink is trusted by hundreds of organizations, from global enterprises to projects at the forefront of the blockchain economy, to deliver definitive truth via secure, reliable data feeds.
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