As an engineer focused on node operations and infrastructure at Alchemy, you'll work within a fast-paced engineering team on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of the blockchain infrastructure that powers our developer platform used globally. You'll operate state-of-the-art systems for running blockchain RPC nodes at scale across many chains and regions, and leverage your experience to keep a highly available live system running for our customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy, operate, and maintain blockchain RPC nodes across multiple chains and multiple geographic regions
- Manage Kubernetes clusters that represent the underlying platform for all blockchain nodes
- Perform rolling upgrades and hard fork migrations for blockchain clients across EVM and non-EVM chains
- Operate on-call rotations, triage live incidents via PagerDuty, and coordinate resolution across teams for node outages, latency spikes, and SLO breaches
- Develop and maintain AI agents / automation tooling for health checks, auto-heal, hard fork notifications
- Deploy and manage services via ArgoCD and GitOps workflows (Helm charts)
- Manage bare-metal and cloud infrastructure including provisioning, benchmarking, and hardware replacement
- Respond to security advisories promptly and coordinate upgrades with minimal downtime
- Contribute to postmortems and async review processes; track action items and follow up on resolutions
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, customer success, and other engineering teams on chain deprecations, capacity planning, and SLO reporting
Qualifications & Requirements
- Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region, multi-cloud production systems
- Experience with Kubernetes (k3s or similar), including StatefulSets, storage management, Secrets and service mesh (Istio)
- Experience with secrets management and access control in multi-cluster environments
- Familiarity with automation frameworks for node health checks, upgrades, and remediation workflows
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, etc)
- Experience with GitOps tooling - ArgoCD, Helm, and managing deployments
- (Preferred) Experience with service mesh deployments such as Istio
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and bare-metal management, including storage provisioning and snapshot management
- Strong grasp of observability tooling - Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager - and experience building or tuning dashboards and alert rules
- Comfort working in an on-call environment, triaging production incidents quickly and calmly using PagerDuty and structured runbooks
- Ability to write clear technical documentation and postmortems, and contribute to async-first team communication
- Experience with networking and configuring / managing VPC networks
- A basic understanding of security best practices
- (Preferred) Good understanding of web applications, microservice architecture
- (Preferred) Experience working with startups
- Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3
Perks & Compensation
- Attractive salary package
- Opportunity to work with the latest cloud and blockchain technologies
- Flexible time away
- Private Medical Insurance
- Start-up environment: internal off-site hackathons, access to company-rented hacker house during summer
- Opportunity to travel across offices
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.