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:
šDual focus on developer productivity and product reliability šContribute to Alchemyās products and services by prioritizing and executing an engineering roadmap in collaboration with tech leads šIdentify, build, and deliver long-term projects that provide additional technical capabilities in our computing environment šImprove 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 šDevelop and own best practices for managing production infrastructure (e.g., provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, observability, etc.) šDevelop and own best practices for developer processes (e.g., CI/CD, dev and staging environments, etc.) šProvide input into long-term infrastructure and platform requirements as well as operational guidelines with a focus on developer productivity and reliability šContinuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices (e.g., for coding, testing, and deployment) šAttract and hire a world-class team with a focus on senior engineers
What We're Looking For:
š6+ years of experience as a Infrastructure/Backend Engineer (e.g. Backend SWE, Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer, Software Engineer) šAt least 2 years of experience as a Manager of a team of 4+ engineers šExperience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region production systems šExperience operating production Kubernetes clusters šExperience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Puppet, etc) šExperience working with AWS or other cloud infrastructures šExperience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools (e.g. Argo, Flux, Gitops) šDemonstrated success as an individual contributor prior to entering management šThe cross-functional nature of this role requires strong communication and collaborations kills
