Staff DevOps Engineer

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. Responsibilities: • Deploy, operate, and maintain blockchain RPC nodes across multiple chains and multiple geographic regions • Manage Kubernetes clusters that represent the underlying platform for all blockchain nodes • Perform rolling upgrades and hard fork migrations for blockchain clients across EVM and non-EVM chains • Operate on-call rotations, triage live incidents via PagerDuty, and coordinate resolution across teams for node outages, latency spikes, and SLO breaches • Develop and maintain AI agents / automation tooling for health checks, auto-heal, hard fork notifications • Deploy and manage services via ArgoCD and GitOps workflows (Helm charts) • Manage bare-metal and cloud infrastructure including provisioning, benchmarking, and hardware replacement • Respond to security advisories promptly and coordinate upgrades with minimal downtime • Contribute to postmortems and async review processes; track action items and follow up on resolutions • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, customer success, and other engineering teams on chain deprecations, capacity planning, and SLO reporting What We're Looking For: • Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region, multi-cloud production systems • Experience with Kubernetes (k3s or similar), including StatefulSets, storage management, Secrets and service mesh (Istio) • Experience with secrets management and access control in multi-cluster environments • Familiarity with automation frameworks for node health checks, upgrades, and remediation workflows • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, etc) • Experience with GitOps tooling - ArgoCD, Helm, and managing deployments • (Preferred) Experience with service mesh deployments such as Istio • Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and bare-metal management, including storage provisioning and snapshot management • Strong grasp of observability tooling - Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager - and experience building or tuning dashboards and alert rules • Comfort working in an on-call environment, triaging production incidents quickly and calmly using PagerDuty and structured runbooks • Ability to write clear technical documentation and postmortems, and contribute to async-first team communication • Experience with networking and configuring / managing VPC networks • A basic understanding of security best practices • (Preferred) Good understanding of web applications, microservice architecture • (Preferred) Experience working with startups • Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3 Perks: • Attractive salary package • Opportunity to work with the latest cloud and blockchain technologies • Flexible time away • Private Medical Insurance • Start-up environment: internal off-site hackathons, access to company-rented hacker house during summer • Opportunity to travel across offices