Staff DevOps Engineer

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.

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

What We're Looking For:

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

(Preferred) Experience with service mesh deployments such as Istio

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

(Preferred) Good understanding of web applications, microservice architecture

(Preferred) Experience working with startups

Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3

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