DevOps Technical Lead

Our Mission

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 a DevOps Tech Lead at Alchemy, you’ll lead a team of engineers responsible for building and scaling one of the most sophisticated, high-throughput infrastructures in the blockchain world. You’ll focus on architecting, automating, and optimizing systems that power millions of global users, ensuring high availability, performance, and security. Beyond the technical leadership, you’ll also grow and mentor the team, shape best practices, and drive a culture of operational excellence.

What You'll Do:

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of infrastructure design, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS)
• Drive the adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks
• Develop and enforce best practices for observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Partner closely with backend, security, and product engineering teams to ensure smooth, reliable service delivery
• Lead technical design discussions, post-mortems, and architecture reviews with a focus on scalability, reliability, and developer velocity
  Identify and proactively address performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and system vulnerabilities
• Eventually (6 mos-12 mos in the role) lead and mentor a high-performing DevOps team, fostering growth, collaboration, and technical excellence
  Balance hands-on contributions with technical leadership and people management
  
  

What We're Looking For:

• 7+ years of relevant industry experience
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms, bare metal and distributed systems
• Proven experience building, scaling, and maintaining production infrastructure at high throughput and low latency
• Hands-on proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.)
• Strong background in automation, scripting, and tooling (Python, Go, or similar)
• Excellent ability to diagnose and resolve complex system, scaling, or performance issues
  
• Interest in leading high-performing teams, including hiring, coaching, and mentoring engineers
• Self-starter mindset with the ability to balance technical depth, team leadership, and strategic impact
  
• Experience in Web3 or high-growth startups, a plus
• Entrepreneurial appetite (founded a company, drove internal company projects or built side projects), a plus