Alchemy
Engineering Manager (infrastructure)

Engineering Manager (infrastructure)

Engineering · CA, United States of America

Job description

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 $105 billion 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 a Series 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 the founders and executives of leading organizations.

Alchemy powers the top blockchain companies globally and has been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, Bloomberg, and elsewhere.

The Role

As a manager of the Infrastructure department at Alchemy, you'll be managing a team of Infrastructure Engineers collaborating with our engineering team to design, deploy, and continuously improve the infrastructure supporting our globally used developer platform.

You'll be responsible for leading engineering teams both technically and culturally as we continue to scale our company. Your focus will be on building and managing a team of high-performing infrastructure engineers that will enhance developer productivity and ensure 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 and scale the team that runs the infrastructure that is required to build products that delight our customers when it comes to reliability, latency and cost.

Responsibilities:

Dual focus on developer productivity and product reliability
Contribute to Alchemy’s products and services by prioritizing and executing an engineering roadmap in collaboration with tech leads
Identify, build, and deliver long-term projects that provide additional technical capabilities in our computing environment
Improve critical infrastructure and productions systems that are used to operate our infrastructure at scale (e.g., compute, networking, deployment, observability, code tooling/libraries etc.) including but not limited to increasing robustness, reducing complexity, training others, and creating documentation
Develop and own best practices for managing production infrastructure (e.g., provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, observability, etc.)
Develop and own best practices for developer processes (e.g., CI/CD, dev and staging environments, etc.)
Provide input into long-term infrastructure and platform requirements as well as operational guidelines with a focus on developer productivity and reliability
Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices (e.g., for coding, testing, and deployment)
Attract and hire a world-class team with a focus on senior engineers

What We're Looking For:

6+ years of experience as a Infrastructure/Backend Engineer (e.g. Backend SWE, Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer, Software Engineer)
At least 2 years of experience as a Manager of a team of 4+ engineers
Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region production systems
Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Puppet, etc)
Experience working with AWS or other cloud infrastructures
Experience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CI/CD tools (e.g. Argo, Flux, Gitops)
Demonstrated success as an individual contributor prior to entering management
The cross-functional nature of this role requires strong communication and collaborations kills
(Preferred) Experience with running production services on bare-metal and vendor management
(Preferred) Experience managing teams in the lower infra stack (e.g. server, operating systems, datacenter management, compute stack (k8s), infrastructure as code, networking)
(Preferred) Excellent understanding of web applications and architecture
(Preferred) Early-stage startup experience

More on The Role

Alchemy 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.