The Engineering Manager, CRE Services will lead the Developer Services engineering team at Chainlink Labs, overseeing the Functions, Automation, VRF, and CRE Service Layer domains. This role is responsible for enhancing reliability, accelerating product delivery, and growing a high-performing engineering team to support critical service-layer infrastructure for blockchain applications.
What You'll Do
- Shape the reliability, usability, and evolution of the CRE Service Layer and related developer-facing infrastructure
- 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
What We're Looking For
- 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
Team & Environment
Lead the Developer Services engineering team at Chainlink Labs.
Benefits & Compensation
- All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based
- Overlapping some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST) is required unless otherwise stated
Work Mode
Remote-based with expectation to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST)
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