Staff DevOps Engineer
Alchemy provides blockchain development infrastructure that simplifies building and scaling decentralized applications.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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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 work within a fast-paced engineering team on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of the blockchain infrastructure that powers a developer platform used globally. You'll operate systems for running blockchain RPC nodes at scale across many chains and regions, keeping a highly available live system running for customers. You'll deploy and maintain nodes, manage Kubernetes clusters, perform upgrades and hard fork migrations, participate in on-call rotations, build automation tooling, and collaborate cross-functionally on capacity planning and SLO reporting.
Requirements
- Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region, multi-cloud production systems.
- Experience with Kubernetes, including StatefulSets, storage management, Secrets, and service mesh.
- Experience with secrets management and access control in multi-cluster environments.
- Familiarity with automation frameworks for node health checks, upgrades, and remediation.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Chef, or Puppet.
- Experience with GitOps tooling including ArgoCD and Helm.
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and bare-metal management, including storage provisioning and snapshots.
- Strong grasp of Grafana, Prometheus, and Alertmanager observability tooling.
- Comfort working in an on-call environment and triaging production incidents.
- Ability to write technical documentation and postmortems and contribute to async-first communication.
- Experience with networking and VPC networks.
- Basic understanding of security best practices.
- Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, operate, and maintain blockchain RPC nodes across multiple chains and geographic regions.
- Manage Kubernetes clusters underlying the blockchain node platform.
- 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.
- Develop and maintain AI agents and automation tooling for health checks, auto-heal, and hard fork notifications.
- Deploy and manage services via ArgoCD and GitOps workflows using Helm charts.
- Manage bare-metal and cloud infrastructure, including provisioning, benchmarking, and hardware replacement.
- Respond to security advisories and coordinate upgrades with minimal downtime.
- Contribute to postmortems and async review processes.
- Collaborate cross-functionally on chain deprecations, capacity planning, and SLO reporting.
Benefits
- Flexible time away
- Private Medical Insurance
- Internal off-site hackathons
- Access to a company-rented hacker house during summer
- Opportunity to travel across offices
- Attractive salary package
- Opportunity to work with the latest cloud and blockchain technologies
