Job description
Our mission is to bring web3 to a billion people, by providing builders with the tools they need to build exceptional onchain products. Alchemy is the only complete developer platform that offers the powerful APIs, SDKs, and tools necessary to build and scale onchain apps and rollups.
Our infrastructure powers 70% of the top web3 teams, 90%+ of web2 companies building in web3 and 100+ million end users. Our customers include top web3 brands like Polymarket, OpenSea, Circle, WorldCoin, as well as major global brands like Shopify and Adobe.
The Alchemy team draws from decades of deep expertise in massively scalable infrastructure, AI, and blockchain from leadership roles at leading companies and universities like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Stanford, and MIT.
We’re backed by the world’s leading VCs and institutions, including: Lightspeed, Silver Lake, a16z, Coatue, Pantera, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, and Charles Schwab, among others.
The Role
As an engineer focused on DevOps and infrastructure at Alchemy, you’ll be working within a fast paced engineering team on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of the infrastructure that supports our developer platform used globally. You’ll architect state of the art solutions for managing complex backend systems and leverage your experience to create a highly available live system for our customers.
Responsibilities:
- Dual focus on product reliability and developer productivity
- Design or improve important infrastructure and systems from an operational standpoint (i.e. deployment, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc.)
- Work with engineering to architect a migration from ECS to Kubernetes on EKS
- Develop and own best practices for managing production infrastructure: provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, monitoring, etc
- Develop and own best practices for developer processes: CI/CD, dev and staging environments, etc
- Provide input into long-term platform requirements and operational guidelines with a focus on reliability
- Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding, testing, and deployment
- Build and maintain documentation around process and workflows
What We’re Looking For:
- Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region, multi-cloud production systems
- Experience working with AWS or cloud infrastructures in general
- Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker and Kubernetes
- (Preferred)Experience with service mesh deployments such as Istio or Linkerd
- Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, ArgoCD and Spinnaker
- Experience with real-time telemetry and tracing tools like Prometheus, Stackdriver, and DataDog
- Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, etc)
- Experience with networking and configuring / managing VPC networks
- A basic understanding of security best practices
- (Preferred) Experience with streaming infrastructure (Kinesis, Kafka, etc)
- (Preferred) Good understanding of web applications, microservice architecture
- (Preferred) Experience working with startups
- Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3
- A hustler mentality, founding a company or building side projects is a plus!
Perks:
- Attractive salary package
- Opportunity to work with the latest cloud and blockchain technologies
- Fully remote work or hybrid depending on candidate preferences
- Token allocation similar to equity packages in traditional companies
- Growth budget, to be spent at the candidate’s discretion
- Equipment stipend
- Flexible time away
- Private Medical Insurance
- Start-up environment: internal off-site hackathons, access to company-rented hacker house during summer
- Crypto market investment opportunities and guidance
