About Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs is one of the primary contributing developers of Chainlink, the standard for onchain finance enabling high-quality data, secure cross-chain interoperability, and compliant connectivity across global markets. Chainlink powers leading tokenized assets, financial institutions, market infrastructures, and decentralized applications by providing secure access to real-world data, cross-chain messaging, and blockchain connectivity across any network. The Chainlink standard has enabled tens of trillions of dollars in transaction value and is helping unify global markets onchain. 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, Aave, Polymarket, Lido, and many others.
Chainlink Labs is a world-class team of developers, researchers, and capital markets experts, and has ranked among Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology, Fortune's Best Medium Workplace, and the Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces. Learn more at chain.link or chainlinklabs.com.
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 exists to ensure the reliability, accuracy, and observability of Chainlink’s data systems as the network scales across assets and use cases. It focuses on building robust data pipelines and models that power benchmarking, monitoring, and downstream data access. The role enables faster product development and unlocks quant and data science workflows through high-quality, accessible data.
Your Impact
Deliver data pipelines that achieve 99.99% ingestion uptime across critical datasets
Improve benchmark accuracy by building resilient, scalable data modeling and processing systems
Establish end-to-end observability, ensuring data freshness, completeness, and accuracy are continuously validated
Route actionable alerts to the appropriate owners, reducing noise and accelerating issue resolution
Enable rapid delivery of new data methodologies to support emerging products and asset coverage
Provide clean, well-structured datasets that accelerate modeling, analytics, and decision-making across teams
Requirements
Demonstrated experience building scalable data models and pipelines for analytics using SQL and Python
Experience working with blockchain or traditional financial market data, with a clear understanding of one domain
Proven ability to define and implement metrics for evaluating complex systems, including data quality and system performance
Built and maintained data pipelines handling large-scale, time-series or asynchronous datasets
Strong understanding of data modeling, partitioning, and performance optimization in analytical systems
Experience designing and implementing data quality checks covering freshness, completeness, and accuracy
Preferred Requirements
Experience working with real-time or streaming data systems such as Flink, Beam, or similar frameworks
Familiarity with order books, trade data, and aggregation methodologies in financial systems
Understanding of decentralized exchanges and approaches to sourcing and structuring onchain data
Background in quantitative statistics or applied statistical analysis
Experience working in investment, trading, or market data environments
Demonstrated ability to work with noisy, multi-source datasets and derive reliable analytical outputs
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