Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

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 in the Infrastructure team at Alchemy, you will collaborate with our engineering team to design, deploy, and continuously improve the infrastructure supporting our globally used developer platform. Your focus will be on enhancing developer productivity and ensuring product reliability as we scale. 

The Infrastructure team’s mission is to provide the infrastructure, tooling and expertise needed to allow Alchemy engineers to ship, scale and operate high quality products to our customers in a fast, safe and cost efficient manner.

Come and help us build, maintain and scale the underlying infrastructure that is required to build products that delight our customers when it comes to reliability, latency and cost.

What You'll Do:

• Dual focus on developer productivity and product reliability
• Improve critical infrastructure and systems that are used to operate infrastructure at scale (i.e. compute, networking, deployment, observability, code tooling/libraries etc.)
• Develop and own best practices for managing production infrastructure: provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, observability, 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 developer productivity and 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:

• 4-8 years of experience as an Infrastructure Engineer (E.g., Backend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer)
• Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region production systems
• Experience working with AWS or other cloud infrastructures
• Experience with container schedules and runtimes such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools (e.g. Argo, Flux, Gitops)
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, Chef, Puppet, etc)
• Experience with networking and configuring / managing VPC networks
• The cross-functional nature of this role requires strong communication and collaborations kills
• (Preferred) Experience with running production services on bare-metal
• (Preferred) Experience with Typescript and Python
• (Preferred) Experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog
• (Preferred) Excellent understanding of web applications and architecture

More on The Role

Alchemy is committed to offering competitive compensation, including base salary as well as equity. Additionally, Alchemy offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as other benefits such as 401k and unlimited flexible time off.

The base salary range for this position is estimated to be between $135,000 - $350,000 annually. Please note this range reflects base salary only, and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Your salary will be determined by various factors, including relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business needs.