Engineering Manager, Alchemy

• 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

• 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

• Work from home opportunities

Total funding: $545m

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