Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Alchemy
$135-240k
Offers Equity & Bonus
Web3 development platform
Job no longer available
Web3 development platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$135-240k
Offers Equity & Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer focused on reliability (SRE, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer)
- Experience driving company-wide reliability efforts, including SLO frameworks and error budget policies
- Strong proficiency with observability stacks: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana
- Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, and multi-region architectures
- Skilled with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD) with an automation-first mindset
- Experience leveraging agentic development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) and workflow automation (n8n) to accelerate IaC and build internal tooling is a strong plus
- Solid networking fundamentals — VPC design, DNS, IPAM, security groups, cross-cloud connectivity, and service mesh (e.g., Istio) experience is a plus
- Calm and effective incident responder with a focus on systemic improvement
- Strong cross-functional communicator across SRE, security, and product engineering
- Blockchain infrastructure, distributed systems, or high-throughput RPC experience — not required but a plus
What the job involves
- As an engineer in the Infrastructure department at Alchemy, you will design, deploy, and continuously improve the infrastructure powering our blockchain developer platform — serving 100+ chains, billions of daily requests, and over $150B in annual transactions
- The Infrastructure team provides the infrastructure, tooling, and expertise needed to allow Alchemy engineers to ship, scale, and operate high-quality products in a fast, safe, and cost-efficient manner
- Architect and operate scalable, self-healing infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native tools across multi-region deployments
- Drive AI enablement across engineering — ensuring repos, tooling, and workflows are optimized for agentic development with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex
- Build AI-powered infrastructure tooling and automation (e.g., automated K8s upgrades, IaC plan analysis, cost optimization advisors, MCP servers, n8n workflows)
- Build and maintain internal developer platform (IDP) capabilities for self-service deployments, observability, and reliability
- Develop observability frameworks using Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, dashboards, and alerting
- Lead incident management with blameless post-mortems; define and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across services
- Design and manage multi-cloud, multi-region network architecture — VPC design, IPAM, DNS (Cloudflare), cross-cloud connectivity, security groups, and edge-proxy/istio gateway configuration
- Collaborate with security teams to embed compliance into infrastructure, including IaC scanning and runtime protection
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to elevate the team's operational capabilities
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 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 10 million end users and became a unicorn after attracting impressive funding in 2022. It continues to refine its platform to gain competitive edge, for example 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
64% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$200m
SERIES C
Oct 2021
$250m
SERIES C
Total funding: $545m
Company benefits
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- HSA
- Flexible time off
- Group meals
- 401k plan
- Company retreats
- Conferences and events
- Gym membership
- Commuting benefits
- Relocation bonus
- Paid parental leave
- Home office stipend
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nikil Viswanathan
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & President)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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