Engineering Manager, Alchemy
Infrastructure
$135-350k
+ Equity
Blockchain development platform
Open for applications
Blockchain development platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$135-350k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology without the hassle of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- (Preferred) Experience with running production services on bare-metal and vendor management
- (Preferred) Experience managing teams in the lower infra stack (e.g. server, operating systems, datacenter management, compute stack (k8s), infrastructure as code, networking)
- (Preferred) Excellent understanding of web applications and architecture
- (Preferred) Early-stage startup experience
What the job involves
- As a manger of the Infrastructure department at Alchemy, you'll be managing a team of Infrastructure Engineers collaborating with our engineering team to design, deploy, and continuously improve the infrastructure supporting our globally used developer platform
- You'll be responsible for leading engineering teams both technically and culturally as we continue to scale our company
- Your focus will be on building and managing a team of high-performing infrastructure engineers that will enhance developer productivity and ensure 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
- 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
Our take
Blockchain technology is a rapidly growing industry with many startups and established companies developing new applications that utilize it. However, many companies reinvent the wheel as they each attempt to build their own version of the blockchain software.
Alchemy offers a platform that simplifies the creation of blockchains and the launching of new nodes. It provides developers with “building blocks” that can be used to make the process more efficient. Alchemy is already working with multinational organizations like Meta, Adobe, and Splunk, and it has won many clients from their current top competitor, Infura.
The company has seen considerable growth and is now acquiring companies to improve its stack. It now serves over 10M end users and became a deca unicorn after attracting impressive funding in 2022. It continues to refine its platform to gain competitive edge, recently launching a transaction simulation product to help reduce the chances of transactions becoming susceptible to scams.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$200m
SERIES C
Oct 2021
$250m
SERIES C
Total funding: $545m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Empathy: Alchemy values empathy, creating a safe and inclusive environment where everyone's voice is heard and respected
- Innovation: Alchemy encourages innovation, empowering employees to think outside the box and push boundaries to create cutting-edge solutions
- Collaboration: Collaboration is key at Alchemy, fostering a team-oriented culture that values open communication and shared problem-solving
- Continuous Improvement: Alchemy is committed to continuous improvement, promoting a growth mindset and providing opportunities for learning and development
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Nikil Viswanathan
(CEO)After studying Computer Science at Stanford, Nikil co-founded Down to Lunch in 2016, serving as CEO. Left this role in 2017 to co-found Alchemy.
Joseph Lau
(CTO)Also co-founded Down to Lunch. Previously Software Engineer at Pinterest, Head Teaching Assistant at Stanford University, and Associate Technology Manager Intern at Google.
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