About the company
Our mission is to bring blockchain to a billion people. The Alchemy Platform is a world class developer platform designed to make building on the blockchain easy. We've built leading infrastructure in the space, powering over $105 billion in transactions for tens of millions of users in 99% of countries worldwide. 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. Alchemy recently raised a Series C1 at a $10.2B valuation led by Lightspeed and Silver Lake. Previously, Alchemy raised from a16z, Coatue, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, the Chairman of Google, Charles Schwab, and the founders and executives of leading organizations. Alchemy powers the top blockchain companies globally and has been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, Bloomberg, and elsewhere.
Job Summary
Responsibilities:
📍Dual focus on developer productivity and product reliability 📍Contribute to Alchemy’s products and services by prioritizing and executing an engineering roadmap in collaboration with tech leads 📍Identify, build, and deliver long-term projects that provide additional technical capabilities in our computing environment 📍Improve critical infrastructure and productions systems that are used to operate our infrastructure at scale (e.g., compute, networking, deployment, observability, code tooling/libraries etc.) including but not limited to increasing robustness, reducing complexity, training others, and creating documentation 📍Develop and own best practices for managing production infrastructure (e.g., provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, observability, etc.) 📍Develop and own best practices for developer processes (e.g., CI/CD, dev and staging environments, etc.) 📍Provide input into long-term infrastructure and platform requirements as well as operational guidelines with a focus on developer productivity and reliability 📍Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices (e.g., for coding, testing, and deployment) 📍Attract and hire a world-class team with a focus on senior engineers
What We're Looking For:
📍6+ years of experience as a Infrastructure/Backend Engineer (e.g. Backend SWE, Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer, Software Engineer) 📍At least 2 years of experience as a Manager of a team of 4+ engineers 📍Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region production systems 📍Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters 📍Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Puppet, etc) 📍Experience working with AWS or other cloud infrastructures 📍Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools (e.g. Argo, Flux, Gitops) 📍Demonstrated success as an individual contributor prior to entering management 📍The cross-functional nature of this role requires strong communication and collaborations kills
