Remote Position
[Remote] Senior Software Engineer CCIP
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainlink is an oracle platform supporting decentralized finance and blockchain applications. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and maintain backend services that coordinate secure, reliable cross-chain transactions for the CCIP protocol. The role focuses on protocol reliability, security, performance optimization, incident-response tooling, and scalable architecture.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve the backend services that power secure, reliable cross-chain message execution across blockchain ecosystems
- Improve protocol reliability for EVM chains by delivering resilient systems designed with security as a primary consideration
- Reduce cross-chain transaction latency through optimizations to RPC usage and protocol performance
- Develop internal tooling that enables faster diagnosis and resolution of production issues during incident response
- Contribute to protocol security initiatives that strengthen the resilience of CCIP under adversarial conditions
- Participate in technical design discussions that improve the architecture and long-term scalability of the protocol
Skills
- Demonstrated backend engineering experience using Go, Rust, or TypeScript
- Experience delivering software within crypto projects or remote-first engineering organizations
- Proven ability to design distributed systems with security and reliability as foundational engineering principles
- Built or maintained backend systems that operate in production with a focus on resiliency and operational excellence
- Experience collaborating in engineering design discussions and contributing to technical decision-making
- Demonstrated knowledge of DeFi protocols and the broader decentralized application ecosystem
- Experience deploying or operating services using cloud infrastructure and tooling such as containerized workloads and public cloud platforms
- Hands-on experience using blockchain bridges or interoperability protocols
- Understanding of bridge-specific security risks and common attack vectors
- Familiarity with non-EVM ecosystems such as Solana, Aptos, Canton, or similar blockchain platforms
Benefits
- All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based.
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