Site Reliability Engineer

Our mission is to bring blockchain to a billion people. The Alchemy Platform is a world class developer platform designed to make building on the blockchain easy. We've built leading infrastructure in the space, powering over$105billion in transactions for tens of millions of users in 99% of countries worldwide.The Alchemy team draws from decades of deep expertise in massively scalable infrastructure, AI, and blockchain from leadership roles at leading companies and universities like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Stanford, and MIT.Alchemy recently raised aSeries C1 at a $10.2B valuation led by Lightspeed and Silver Lake. Previously, Alchemy raised from a16z, Coatue, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, the Chairman of Google, Charles Schwab, and thefounders and executives of leading organizations.As an engineer in the Infrastructure department at Alchemy, you will collaborate with our engineering team to design, deploy, and continuously improve the infrastructure supporting our globally used developer platform. Your focus will be on enhancing developer productivity and ensuring product reliability as we scale.The Infrastructure team’s mission is to provide the infrastructure, tooling and expertise needed to allow Alchemy engineers to ship, scale and operate high quality products to our customers in a fast, safe and cost efficient manner.Come and help us build, maintain and scale the underlying infrastructure that is required to build products that delight our customers when it comes to reliability, latency and cost.What You'll Do:Set high standards for Reliability at AlchemyDevelop and own company wide Reliability best practices like SLO definition, incident management, postmortem reviews, launch readiness reviews, change managementArchitect production infrastructure and tools that encourage and enforces high reliabilityInspire the broader engineering organization to ensure Reliability is a first class citizen in the products we buildCollaborate, partner, advice, review and mentor engineering teams on Reliability topics like high reliability architecture, observability, safe change managementImprove critical infrastructure and systems that are used to operate infrastructure at scale (i.e. compute, networking, deployment, observability, code tooling/libraries etc.)Develop and own best practices for managing production infrastructure: provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, monitoring, etc.Develop and own best practices for developer processes: CI/CD, dev and staging environments, etc.Provide input into long-term platform requirements and operational guidelines with a focus on reliabilityContinuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding, testing, and deploymentBuild and maintain documentation around process and workflowsWhat We're Looking For:6+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Engineer focused on Reliability (e.g., Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer)Experience leading and driving company wide reliability efforts and engineering initiativesExperience with observability best practices and tooling like Prometheus, Grafana and DatadogExperience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region production systemsExperience working with AWS or other cloud infrastructuresExperience with container schedules and runtimes such as Docker and KubernetesExperience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, Chef, Puppet, etc)The cross-functional nature of this role requires strong communication and collaborations skills(Preferred) Experience with running production services on bare-metal(Preferred) Experience with Typescript and Python(Preferred) Excellent understanding of web applications and architectureMore on The RoleAlchemy is committed to offering competitive compensation, including base salary as well as equity. Additionally, Alchemy offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as other benefits such as 401k and unlimited flexible time off.The base salary range for this position is estimated to be between $135,000 - $350,000 annually. Please note this range reflects base salary only, and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Your salary will be determined by various factors, including relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business needs.Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtfAccepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtfLinkedIn Profile (If you don't have a profile, please type N/A) *Do you have 5+ years of relevant industry experience as an Infrastructure Engineer? *

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