Infrastructure Security Manager

• Zone 2 (e.g., District of Columbia; Austin, TX; Chicago, IL) Annual cash range: $150K – $200K
• Zone 3 (Remote – Other U.S. locations) Annual cash range: $90K – $125K

The estimated cash compensation for this role is based on job-related factors including relevant skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location. Chainlink Labs follows a zone-based compensation model. In addition to competitive cash compensation, Chainlink Labs provides long-term incentives and comprehensive benefits. Actual compensation packages are discussed and finalized during the offer process.

Note:

For select sales roles, the cash compensation range represents a combination of base salary and sales commission.

As the Infrastructure Security Manager, you will establish and scale the security foundations that protect Chainlink’s infrastructure, cloud environments, and decentralized network. This role combines technical leadership with hands‑on engineering, building secure infrastructure standards while enabling engineering teams to deliver quickly through automated, secure-by-default platforms. You will lead a small team while remaining deeply involved in architecture, implementation, and delivery.

Build and standardize secure infrastructure patterns across AWS and GCP, creating a scalable security foundation for future growth.

Establish unified identity and access management alongside centralized secrets management to significantly reduce infrastructure risk.

Deliver secure Terraform and Git Ops workflows that provide engineering teams with a secure “paved road” for infrastructure deployments.

Automate infrastructure compliance, logging, and security controls to support SOC 2 Type 2 and banking‑grade operational standards.

Reduce the blast radius of infrastructure compromises by strengthening IAM, platform hardening, and cloud security boundaries across distributed systems.

Lead the evolution of Infrastructure Security into an engineering‑enabled capability that accelerates product delivery while improving organizational security posture.

Demonstrated recent, hands‑on experience authoring and deploying production‑grade Terraform for cloud security, including complex IAM, EKS, and VPC implementations through Git Ops pipelines such as Atlantis or ArgoCD.

Proven success leading and mentoring a small engineering team while maintaining direct ownership of technical project delivery as a player‑coach.

Built foundational infrastructure hardening and IAM standards from the ground up in an organization without an established infrastructure security function.

Experience designing and implementing secure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and Git Ops practices in production cloud environments.

Demonstrated ability to architect and secure cloud infrastructure while partnering closely with engineering teams to embed security into development workflows rather than acting as a deployment gatekeeper.

Experience adapting financial services or banking security standards to modern, high‑velocity infrastructure environments.

Background designing security architectures and trust boundaries for highly distributed systems or decentralized service topologies.

Demonstrated experience securing identity and access management across both AWS and GCP environments.

Experience working within DeFi or Web3 environments and understanding the associated infrastructure threat models.

Built and enforced policy‑as‑code controls within CI/CD pipelines using technologies such as OPA, CodeQL, or comparable policy enforcement frameworks.

Designed or operated advanced secrets management or cryptographic infrastructure using technologies such as HSMs, Vault, MPC, or equivalent solutions beyond standard cloud KMS offerings.

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).

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