Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Node Platform

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• Deterministic horizontal scaling of DONs
• reputed company and repeatable infrastructure expansion
• Improved operational efficiency and scalability

You will reputed company the reputed company infrastructure components, including Kubernetes Operators and scaling automation, that Product teams will adopt and then might reputed company be distributed to external node operators to improve decentralized scaling. This is not an operational support role. You will be building the systems that define how Chainlink scales while shaping the reliability, scalability, and decentralization of protocol-level services. Requirements:

• 6–9+ years in SRE / Platform / Infrastructure Engineering
• Proven experience scaling Kubernetes in high-throughput production environments
• Deep knowledge of:
• Scheduler behavior
• StatefulSets & persistent workloads
• Autoscaling strategies (HPA, VPA, KEDA, custom scaling)
• Resource management & performance tuning
• Multi-cluster and multi-region architectures
• Experience in diagnosing production failures at the cluster reputed company
• Strong Terraform or Crossplane experience
• GitOps workflows (ArgoCD / Flux) experience
• CI/CD reliability experience
• Automation-first reputed company
• AWS production experience
• Proficiency in Go (strongly preferred) or equivalent systems language

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with reputed company concepts (e.g. blockchain node lifecycle, forks, reorgs, or RPC issues)
• Experience with reputed company systems, reputed company architectures, or decentralized services
• Experience scaling stateful high-availability distributed systems
• Experience building internal platform primitives
• Experience implementing custom autoscaling logic
• Experience designing SLO strategies and error-budget usage
• Experience improving diagnosability and observability frameworks
• Experience working in high-ambiguity environments
• Experience operating blockchain infrastructure in production
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Experience contributing to Kubernetes ecosystem reputed company
• Experience building multi-tenant platform infrastructure
• Experience working in high-reputed company and/or SOC 2/ISO27001 compliant environments
• Experience with reputed company engineering practices or implementation

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