Staff DevOps Engineer

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