About the Role
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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
Qualifications & Requirements
- 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.
- Strong cross-functional communicator across SRE, security, and product engineering.
- Blockchain infrastructure, distributed systems, or high-throughput RPC experience - not required but a plus.
Perks & Compensation
Medical, Dental, & Vision Gym Reimbursement Home Office Build-out Budget In-Office Group Meals Wellbeing & Mental Health Perks Learning & Development Stipend Company Sponsored Conferences & Events HSA and FSA Plans Fertility Benefits More on the Role Alchemy is committed to offering competitive compensation, including base salary as well as equity. Additionally, Alchemy offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as other benefits such as 401k and unlimited flexible time off.
About Alchemy
Alchemy, founded in 2017 in San Francisco by Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau, Stanford classmates and former teaching assistants, is a leading Web3 developer platform providing node infrastructure, Supernode and Notify APIs. The stack powers many top Ethereum applications and handles significant transaction volume for customers including major exchanges and consumer apps, with high uptime and scalable archival data. Valued highly after rapid growth, the company serves developers through reliable APIs, enhanced data and educational programs that reduce need to run nodes directly. Headquartered in San Francisco with an office in New York and distributed colleagues, Alchemy invests in developer experience, documentation and enterprise reliability. The culture is engineering-obsessed, docs-first and focused on making every developer a Web3 developer with dependable tooling.