Director of Engineering, Infrastructure & Platform
The complete web3 development platform for wallets, rollups, and apps
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About Alchemy
The node foundation you build everything on Supernode: Meet the web3 engine powering our suite of APIs. Read and write to the blockchain exactly as you want. Powerful write APIs Smart Wallets: Securely onboard and activate users with no seed phrase or gas fees with easy-to-use, enterprise-grade wallets. Account Contracts: Optimized ERC-4337, ERC-6900, and EIP-7702 smart contract accounts. Gas Manager: Get users to your magic moment faster by removing the biggest barrier with gas sponsorship. Bundler: Simulate and land transactions onchain, reliably at scale. Transact: 7.9x faster, 100% success rate. Transaction simulation, frontrunning protection, and real-time notifications. Transaction Simulation: Transact with confidence. Preview how transactions will behave onchain, and keep your assets safe. Reliable read APIs Subgraphs: Ship faster with a custom API for your onchain data. Never worry about subgraph downtime or lag again. NFT API: The multichain API to launch, verify, analyze, trade and display NFTs. Token API: The token data your users expect, no token list required. Available on all EVM-supported chains. Custom Webhooks: Infinite data access, precise filter controls. Transfers API: 100x faster than others. One request to get all historical transaction activity, including internal transfers. Smart Websockets: Scalable. Customizable. Easy to set up. Websocket notifications for web3 actions you care about. Webhooks: Fast, consistent push notifications. Zero missed updates. Massive savings. Developer Tools Dashboard: Reporting, alerts, analytics, and app monitoring. Sandbox: In-browser request sandbox. AlchemyAI: AI-powered tools made for web3 developers. Create Web3 Dapp: Bootstrap a dapp in 4 minutes.
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About the Role
As Director of Engineering, Infrastructure & Platform, you will own the vision, strategy, and execution of one of the most sophisticated, high-throughput distributed systems in the blockchain ecosystem. You'll lead multiple teams responsible for the core platform that powers products, where reliability, performance, and cost efficiency at massive scale are mission-critical. You will set the long-term technical direction for platform infrastructure, partner closely with Product and Executive Leadership, and help ensure operations continue at the frontier of Web3 infrastructure. Your work will enable developers to move faster with confidence and help unlock blockchain adoption for the next billion users.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in distributed systems.
- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and leading orgs responsible for critical production infrastructure at high-growth startup.
- Strong hands-on understanding of large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with Java, Kubernetes, AWS, multi-region, multi-cloud is strongly preferred.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and engage with the open-source community.
- Strong ownership mindset; comfortable operating with ambiguity and driving initiatives end-to-end.
- Ability to balance perfection with pragmatism and ship impactful solutions quickly.
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale multiple engineering teams across Cloud Infrastructure, Platform, Data Platform, and Internal Tooling, including distributed and international teams.
- Define and own the platform and infrastructure strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across the organization.
- Serve as a senior technical leader, influencing architecture and systems design for large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
- Partner with Product, Security, Finance, and Executive Leadership to align platform investments with company goals and customer needs.
- Drive execution excellence by evolving processes, setting clear priorities, and ensuring predictable delivery as the organization scales.
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies and ecosystem trends and translate them into actionable technical strategy.
- Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering leaders and ICs; provide coaching that raises the technical bar across teams.
- Own hiring strategy and workforce planning for the org, recruiting top-tier talent and developing future leaders.
- Shape and strengthen engineering culture through standards, mentorship, and programs that promote continuous learning and innovation.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision
- Gym Reimbursement
- Home Office Build-out Budget
- In-Office Group Meals
- Commuter Benefits
- Flexible Time Off
- Wellbeing & Mental Health Perks
- Learning & Development Stipend
- Company Sponsored Conferences & Events
- HSA and FSA Plans
- Fertility Benefits