Site Reliability Engineer, Alchemy
$135-350k
Blockchain development platform
Open for applications
Blockchain development platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$135-350k
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
- 5+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Engineer focused on Reliability (e.g., Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer)
- Experience leading and driving company wide reliability efforts and engineering initiatives
- Experience with observability best practices and tooling like Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog
- 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)
- The cross-functional nature of this role requires strong communication and collaborations skills
- (Preferred) Experience with running production services on bare-metal
- (Preferred) Experience with Typescript and Python
- (Preferred) Excellent understanding of web applications and architecture
What the job involves
- As an engineer in the Infrastructure department 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
- Set high standards for Reliability at Alchemy
- Develop and own company wide Reliability best practices like SLO definition, incident management, postmortem reviews, launch readiness reviews, change management
- Architect production infrastructure and tools that encourage and enforces high reliability
- Inspire the broader engineering organization to ensure Reliability is a first class citizen in the products we build
- Collaborate, partner, advice, review and mentor engineering teams on Reliability topics like high reliability architecture, observability, safe change management
- 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, monitoring, 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 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
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
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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