Engineering Manager (Infrastructure)

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.The RoleAs 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 e 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 reliabilityContribute to Alchemy's products and services by prioritizing and executing an engineering roadmap in collaboration with tech leadsIdentify, build, and deliver long-term projects that provide additional technical capabilities in our computing environmentImprove critical infrastructure and productions systems that are used to operate our infrastructure at scale (e.g., compute, networking, deployment, observability, code toolinglibraries etc.) including but not limited to increasing robustness, reducing complexity, training others, and creating documentationDevelop 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., CICD, 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 reliabilityContinuously 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 engineersWhat We're Looking For:6+ years of experience as a InfrastructureBackend 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+ engineersExperience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region production systemsExperience operating production Kubernetes clustersExperience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Puppet, etc)Experience working with AWS or other cloud infrastructuresExperience building deployment pipelines leveraging common CICD tools (e.g. Argo, Flux, Gitops)Demonstrated success as an individual contributor prior to entering managementThe 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 experienceMore on The RoleAlchemy 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.

Created: 2025-02-15