VP Engineering, Data & CCIP

Chainlink Labs

1d • Remote

About The Position

Chainlink is seeking a VP of Engineering to lead our Data Products and CCIP teams, responsible for scaling critical infrastructure that underpins decentralized finance and cross-chain interoperability. This role exists to drive organizational and technical excellence across high-stakes, high-availability systems while enabling rapid growth and evolution of the engineering organization. You will operate at both strategic and hands-on levels, shaping system architecture, elevating engineering standards, and ensuring the reliability and performance of systems that secure significant onchain value.

Requirements

• Scaled an engineering organization of 60+ engineers through periods of growth and change, including restructuring teams and making high-velocity hiring and performance management decisions
• Owned production systems with 99.99%+ uptime requirements in adversarial or financially consequential environments, including direct accountability for incident response and root cause analysis
• Made high-impact architectural decisions under real-world constraints and elevated engineering standards across teams beyond direct reporting lines
• Demonstrated deep technical fluency in distributed data systems, including tradeoffs across latency, reliability, and data delivery guarantees in real-time or near-real-time environments
• Clear, informed conviction in blockchain technology, supported by hands-on engagement with crypto ecosystems and the ability to articulate a perspective on its importance

Nice To Haves

• Experience operating at an executive level, representing engineering in customer-facing or leadership settings while driving urgency and raising performance standards
• Worked closely with founders in high-growth, post-Series B environments, contributing to operational scaling in rapidly evolving organizations

Responsibilities

• Scale and evolve a high-performing engineering organization, maintaining a high talent bar while adapting team structure to support rapid growth and changing priorities
• Define and drive architecture for mission-critical systems powering data delivery and cross-chain communication with strict uptime and reliability requirements
• Establish engineering standards and practices that elevate system design quality, operational rigor, and long-term maintainability across teams
• Ensure resilient, fault-tolerant infrastructure capable of operating in adversarial and financially sensitive environments
• Influence company-wide technical direction through hands-on contributions, design leadership, and cross-functional alignment
• Represent engineering in high-stakes internal and external contexts, shaping product and infrastructure strategy

Benefits

• Global and remote-based roles
• Overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed