Alchemy • Bucharest, Romania
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Job description
Our mission is to bring web3 to a billion people, by providing builders with the tools they need to build exceptional onchain products. Alchemy is the only complete developer platform that offers the powerful APIs, SDKs, and tools necessary to build and scale onchain apps and rollups.
Our infrastructure powers 70% of the top web3 teams, 90%+ of web2 companies building in web3 and 100+ million end users. Our customers include top web3 brands like Polymarket, OpenSea, Circle, WorldCoin, as well as major global brands like Shopify and Adobe.
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.
We're backed by the world's leading VCs and institutions, including: Lightspeed, Silver Lake, a16z, Coatue, Pantera, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, and Charles Schwab, among others.
As a DevOps Tech Lead at Alchemy, you’ll lead a team of engineers responsible for building and scaling one of the most sophisticated, high-throughput infrastructures in the blockchain world. You’ll focus on architecting, automating, and optimizing systems that power millions of global users, ensuring high availability, performance, and security. Beyond the technical leadership, you’ll also grow and mentor the team, shape best practices, and drive a culture of operational excellence.
end-to-end lifecycle
of infrastructure design, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvementscalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure
(primarily AWS)Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks
observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response
technical design discussions, post-mortems, and architecture reviews
with a focus on scalability, reliability, and developer velocityIdentify and proactively addressperformance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and system vulnerabilities
hands-on contributions
withtechnical leadership and people management
cloud platforms, bare metal
and distributed systemsbuilding, scaling, and maintaining production infrastructure
at high throughput and low latencyInfrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelinesobservability stacks
(Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.)automation, scripting, and tooling
(Python, Go, or similar)diagnose and resolve complex system, scaling, or performance issues
high-performing teams
, including hiring, coaching, and mentoring engineerstechnical depth, team leadership, and strategic impact