Security Operations Engineer

Alchemy provides blockchain development infrastructure that simplifies building and scaling decentralized applications.

Series C16 current maintainers15 active leads14 lead step-downs6 early lead departures
United States
About Alchemy

Alchemy enables developers to build reliable blockchain applications through a comprehensive platform offering node infrastructure, enhanced APIs, and developer tools. The platform connects applications to blockchain networks with high reliability and performance, while reducing the complexity of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house.

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About the Role

You'll be a hands-on individual contributor who investigates suspicious activity and builds systems that make investigations faster and more reliable. You'll triage alerts, hunt threats, build and tune detections, take part in the on-call incident response rotation, and build and verify AI-assisted security workflows. You'll partner with Infrastructure and IT on remediation and hardening, help secure agent operations, and share tooling and runbooks with teammates.

Requirements

  • Hands-on security operations experience across detection engineering, threat hunting and incident response
  • Strong scripting and software skills, especially Python
  • Experience with APIs, version control, tests and production automation
  • Experience with a SIEM such as Panther or Splunk
  • Working knowledge of cloud security, identity, endpoint telemetry, networking and Linux
  • Evidence of building and using AI-assisted tools in security or engineering work
  • Sound incident judgment
  • Record of making teammates more effective
  • Clear written communication

Responsibilities

  • Triage alerts, hunt for threats and investigate across cloud, corporate systems, identity, endpoints and production
  • Build and tune detections, onboard telemetry and maintain log pipelines
  • Participate in security on-call rotation and incident response
  • Build AI-assisted security workflows for evidence collection, alert enrichment and response
  • Evaluate AI-assisted workflows against known cases and adversarial inputs
  • Partner with Infrastructure and IT on vulnerability remediation, hardening and identity controls
  • Help secure agent operations including identities, credentials and audit logging
  • Share reusable code, runbooks and evaluation cases and pair with teammates
  • Track detection coverage, alert quality and response metrics

Benefits

  • Private health insurance
  • Gym reimbursement
  • Commuter benefits
  • Flexible time off
  • In-office group meals
  • Learning & development stipend
  • Company sponsored conferences & events
  • Books & audiobook subscription
  • Equity
  • Bonus