Engineering Manager, CRE Services

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform that brings capital markets onchain and powers the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). Its stack provides essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards for advanced blockchain use cases, including institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, and stablecoins. Chainlink has enabled trillions in transaction value and is adopted by major financial institutions and top protocols. The company leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve.

Introduction

Chainlink Labs is seeking an Engineering Manager for CRE Services to lead the Developer Services engineering team. This role encompasses ownership of Functions, Automation, VRF, and the CRE Service Layer domains. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring continuous delivery, enhancing reliability, accelerating product velocity, and fostering team growth across critical service-layer infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Shape the reliability, usability, and evolution of the CRE Service Layer and related developer-facing infrastructure.
• Directly impact the pace at which new capabilities reach the ecosystem.
• Focus on hardening the reliability and operational resilience of the CRE Service Layer.
• Establish and manage a single, clearly prioritized backlog across demanding stakeholders and cross-functional inputs.
• Accelerate iteration cycles based on user feedback to drive product-market fit for CRE capabilities.
• Deliver new service-layer capabilities, including enhancements such as improved workflow management models.
• Lead the migration of legacy products onto CRE infrastructure.
• Develop and grow a high-performing engineering team.

Requirements

• Strong product judgment, with the ability to influence direction and partner effectively with product leadership in high-ambiguity environments.
• Demonstrated experience operating autonomously in fast-paced, high-demand environments.
• Proven people leadership experience, including managing and developing senior and staff-level engineers.
• Technical depth sufficient to guide architectural discussions, unblock teams, and maintain high engineering standards.
• Experience managing complex backlogs and stakeholder expectations across multiple priorities.
• Track record of planning and executing multi-stream engineering initiatives with clear accountability and delivery outcomes.
• Ability to coach engineers through performance growth and career progression.

Nice to Have

• Experience across both large, mature organizations and startup environments.
• Experience launching products or platforms from 0 → 1.
• Strong project and program management discipline.
• Professional Web3 experience or deep engagement as a power user within the ecosystem.

Benefits

• All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based.
• Opportunity to work with the industry-standard oracle platform.
• Contribute to the critical infrastructure powering DeFi and institutional blockchain use cases.

About Company

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform that brings capital markets onchain and powers the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). Its stack provides essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards for advanced blockchain use cases, including institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, and stablecoins. Chainlink has enabled trillions in transaction value and is adopted by major financial institutions and top protocols. The company leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve.

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