The Role
As an engineer focused on DevOps and infrastructure at Alchemy, you'll be working within a fast paced engineering team on the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of the infrastructure that supports our developer platform used globally. You'll architect state of the art solutions for managing complex backend systems and leverage your experience to create a highly available live system for our customers.
Responsibilities:
Dual focus on product reliability and developer productivity
Design or improve important infrastructure and systems from an operational standpoint (i.e. deployment, logging, monitoring, alerting, 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 reliability
Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding, testing, and deployment
Build and maintain documentation around process and workflows
What We're Looking For:
Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region, multi-cloud production systems
Experience working with AWS or cloud infrastructures in general
Experience with container schedulers and runtimes such as Docker and Kubernetes
(Preferred)Experience with service mesh deployments such as Istio or Linkerd
Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, ArgoCD and Spinnaker
Experience with real-time telemetry and tracing tools like Prometheus, Stackdriver, and DataDog
Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, etc)
Experience with networking and configuring / managing VPC networks
A basic understanding of security best practices
(Preferred) Experience with streaming infrastructure (Kinesis, Kafka, etc)
(Preferred) Good understanding of web applications, microservice architecture
(Preferred) Experience working with startups
Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3
A hustler mentality, founding a company or building side projects is a plus!
Perks:
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
