Alchemy

Tech / AI / Software

CloudInfrastructureEngineer

$135–240k san francisco, california, united states FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Alchemy. Skills: Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Reliability Engineering (SRE), Observability, Networking. design, deploy, and continuously improve the infrastructure powering our blockchain developer platform. Architect and operate scalable, self-healing infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native tools across multi-region deployments”

What You'll Achieve.

serving 100+ chains, billions of daily requests, and over $150B in annual transactions; allow Alchemy engineers to ship, scale, and operate high-quality products in a fast, safe, and cost-efficient manner; define and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across services

Industry & Context.

Tech / AI / Software
Problems you'll solve

cost optimization advisors

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer focused on reliability (SRE, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer), Experience driving company-wide reliability efforts, including SLO frameworks and error budget policies, proficiency with observability stacks: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, and multi-region architectures, Skilled with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD) with an automation-first mindset, Calm and effective incident responder with a focus on systemic improvement, cross-functional communicator across SRE, security, and product engineering

Nice to Have

Experience leveraging agentic development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) and workflow automation (n8n) to accelerate IaC and build internal tooling is a plus, Solid networking fundamentals — VPC design, DNS, IPAM, security groups, cross-cloud connectivity, and service mesh (e.g., Istio) experience is a plus, Blockchain infrastructure, distributed systems, or high-throughput RPC experience — not required but a plus

What You'll Do.

and continuously improve the infrastructure powering our blockchain developer platform

Architect and operate scalable

self-healing infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes

and cloud-native tools across multi-region deployments

Drive AI enablement across engineering — ensuring repos

and workflows are optimized for agentic development

Build AI-powered infrastructure tooling and automation

Build and maintain internal developer platform (IDP) capabilities for self-service deployments

Develop observability frameworks using Prometheus and Grafana for metrics

Lead incident management with blameless post-mortems; define and enforce SLIs

and error budgets across services

Design and manage multi-cloud

multi-region network architecture

Collaborate with security teams to embed compliance into infrastructure

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to elevate the team's operational capabilities

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

cross-functional communicator across SRE, security, and product engineering

Communication Scope

cross-functional communicator

Full Job Description

About the Role As an engineer in the Infrastructure department at Alchemy, you will design, deploy, and continuously improve the infrastructure powering our blockchain developer platform — serving 100+ chains, billions of daily requests, and over $150B in annual transactions. The Infrastructure team provides the infrastructure, tooling, and expertise needed to allow Alchemy engineers to ship, scale, and operate high-quality products in a fast, safe, and cost-efficient manner. What You'll Do - Architect and operate scalable, self-healing infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native tools across multi-region deployments. - Drive AI enablement across engineering — ensuring repos, tooling, and workflows are optimized for agentic development with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. - Build AI-powered infrastructure tooling and automation (e.g., automated K8s upgrades, IaC plan analysis, cost optimization advisors, MCP servers, n8n workflows). - Build and maintain internal developer platform (IDP) capabilities for self-service deployments, observability, and reliability. - Develop observability frameworks using Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, dashboards, and alerting. - Lead incident management with blameless post-mortems; define and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across services. - Design and manage multi-cloud, multi-region network architecture — VPC design, IPAM, DNS (Cloudflare), cross-cloud connectivity, security groups, and edge-proxy/istio gateway configuration. - Collaborate with security teams to embed compliance into infrastructure, including IaC scanning and runtime protection. - Provide technical leadership and mentorship to elevate the team's operational capabilities. What We're Looking For - 5+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer focused on reliability (SRE, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer). - Experience driving company-wide reliability efforts, including SLO frameworks and error budget policies. - Strong profici

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