What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Manager, CRE Services position at Chainlink Labs?
About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.
Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.
About The Role
This role leads the Developer Services engineering team, owning the Functions, Automation, VRF, and CRE Service Layer domains. You will ensure continuity of delivery while strengthening reliability, product velocity, and team growth across critical service-layer infrastructure.
Your Impact
You will shape the reliability, usability, and evolution of the CRE Service Layer and related developer-facing infrastructure. Your leadership will directly impact the pace at which new capabilities reach the ecosystem.
In The First 6–12 Months, You Will
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.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us via this form.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants
Information collected and processed as part of your Chainlink Labs Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit, is subject to our Recruiting Privacy Policy. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.
Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.
About The Role
This role leads the Developer Services engineering team, owning the Functions, Automation, VRF, and CRE Service Layer domains. You will ensure continuity of delivery while strengthening reliability, product velocity, and team growth across critical service-layer infrastructure.
Your Impact
You will shape the reliability, usability, and evolution of the CRE Service Layer and related developer-facing infrastructure. Your leadership will directly impact the pace at which new capabilities reach the ecosystem.
In The First 6–12 Months, You Will
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us via this form.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants
Information collected and processed as part of your Chainlink Labs Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit, is subject to our Recruiting Privacy Policy. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.