Senior Software Engineer, Privacy

at  Chainlink Labs

ABOUT US

Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking, DeFi, global trade, and gaming by collaborating with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, notably Swift, DTCC, and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top Web3 teams, including Aave, Compound, GMX, Maker, and Synthetix. Chainlink Labs was ranked in Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2023 in both the United States and United Kingdom.

REQUIREMENTS

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering
• Familiarity and experience working on privacy preserving technologies and/or cryptography
• Experience with blockchains or distributed ledgers
• Professional experience with large distributed systems
• Experience working with Trusted Execution Environments, such as SGX, AWS Nitro, GCP Confidential Compute

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

• Experience with GO, Rust, or familiarity working with WASM preferred
• Proven product focused engineering and customer empathy
• Experience working on traditional banking or finance systems a plus
• Experience writing production smart contracts in the EVM ecosystem a plus
  All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Join a brand new team as the first engineer focused on embedding privacy-enhancing technologies into the Chainlink product stack. This role spans the development of both off-chain and on-chain privacy solutions to enhance the Chainlink runtime Environment. The mission is to introduce privacy solutions at every layer of Chainlink’s operations, ensuring robust, customer-centric implementations to protect consumers and enable new use cases that rely on privacy.
Our approach is practical and implementation-driven, emphasizing battle-tested protocols that meet the privacy requirements of diverse customers, from native DeFi protocols to traditional financial institutions navigating blockchain adoption in regulated settings. Experience with technologies like Privacy Pools, Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), and Stealth Addresses will be highly advantageous.
You will work closely with our internal research team and other engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and pragmatic privacy solutions that address real-world challenges.