Staff DevOps Engineer at Alchemy Inc.

<p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Deploy, operate, and maintain blockchain RPC nodes across multiple chains and multiple geographic regions</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Manage Kubernetes clusters that represent the underlying platform for all blockchain nodes</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Perform rolling upgrades and hard fork migrations for blockchain clients across EVM and non-EVM chains</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Operate on-call rotations, triage live incidents via PagerDuty, and coordinate resolution across teams for node outages, latency spikes, and SLO breaches</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Develop and maintain AI agents / automation tooling for health checks, auto-heal, hard fork notifications</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Deploy and manage services via ArgoCD and GitOps workflows (Helm charts)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Manage bare-metal and cloud infrastructure including provisioning, benchmarking, and hardware replacement</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Respond to security advisories promptly and coordinate upgrades with minimal downtime</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Contribute to postmortems and async review processes; track action items and follow up on resolutions</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate cross-functionally with product, customer success, and other engineering teams on chain deprecations, capacity planning, and SLO reporting</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What We're Looking For:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region, multi-cloud production systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with Kubernetes (k3s or similar), including StatefulSets, storage management, Secrets and service mesh (Istio)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with secrets management and access control in multi-cluster environments</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with automation frameworks for node health checks, upgrades, and remediation workflows</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, etc)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with GitOps tooling - ArgoCD, Helm, and managing deployments</p></li><li>