Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Infrastructure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +4 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the reliability and operational efficiency of extensive distributed systems and data infrastructure.

• Enhance the production operations of streaming services and Kubernetes workloads.

• Oversee infrastructure modifications utilizing repeatable, version-controlled methodologies.

• Boost the scalability and operational effectiveness of the infrastructure utilized by engineering teams.

• Provide streaming and data infrastructure for CRE, CCIP, Data Feeds, and Data Streams.

• Convert product requirements into dependable Redpanda/Kafka and Flink functionalities.

• Ensure 99.9% availability of critical data infrastructure as usage escalates.

• Scale streaming and Kubernetes workloads while addressing throughput and recovery issues.

• Define service-level indicators that reflect the experience of consuming services.

• Minimize recurring incidents, manual interventions, and routine maintenance through automation, actionable alerts, tested recovery protocols, and vulnerability remediation.

• Connect Redpanda topic traffic, Flink processing, and BigQuery usage with consuming teams and services.

• Develop reusable infrastructure modules, deployment workflows, and documentation.

• Empower engineering teams to independently provision, test, scale, and retire AWS and Kubernetes resources.

• Create visibility into infrastructure consumers, service adoption, reliability, costs, and maintenance efforts.

• Align some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in operating large-scale distributed systems and scalable data processing infrastructure in a production setting.

• Experience in managing availability, consistency, failure modes, and performance trade-offs.

• Hands-on experience with operating Kafka or Kafka-compatible streaming platforms such as Redpanda.

• Practical experience in capacity planning, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

• Experience in provisioning and managing production infrastructure using Terraform.

• Familiarity with version-controlled, reviewed, and repeatable infrastructure changes.

• Experience in deploying, operating, and troubleshooting production Kubernetes workloads.

• Knowledge in resource management, scaling, and safe rollouts.

• Preferred: experience with reusable infrastructure modules, self-service capabilities, and CI/CD workflows.

• Preferred: production experience with Apache Flink pipelines, including monitoring, failure diagnosis, and recovery.

• Preferred: experience with AWS Aurora/RDS, covering provisioning, backup and recovery, failover, rightsizing, and cost optimization.

• Preferred: advanced experience with technologies such as Apache Flink, Redpanda/Kafka, Iceberg, PostgreSQL, Airflow, or Trino.

• Preferred: proficiency in production-quality Java and/or Go.

• Preferred: contributions to open-source infrastructure or data initiatives.

• Resume/CV must be submitted in English.

• Applicants are required to indicate whether they need visa sponsorship in their location.

• Blockchain/crypto experience is requested in the application form.

🏝️ Benefits

• Global and remote work arrangement.

• Opportunity to work on Chainlink infrastructure that powers capital markets and decentralized finance.

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Disability or special-needs accommodations during the application and recruitment processes.

• Potential future contact regarding relevant job openings, newsletters, and recruitment-related communications (with consent).