VP Engineering Data CCIP

About ChainlinkChainlink 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 RoleChainlink 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.Your Impact 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 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 Preferred Requirements 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 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).We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two...