Staff DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

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.

🏢 About Alchemy

Alchemy is a blockchain platform that empowers developers to build and scale decentralized applications. We are committed to innovation and excellence in blockchain technology.

🎯 The Role

You will be responsible for deploying, operating, and maintaining blockchain RPC nodes across multiple chains and geographic regions. Your work will ensure the reliability and performance of our infrastructure, supporting our global developer community.

✅ 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

📌 Required Qualifications

• 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
• 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

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Good understanding of web applications, microservice architecture
• Experience working with startups
• Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3

🎁 Benefits

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

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

No specific visa or eligibility information provided.