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cryptodevweb3DevOps Engineer
About this role
Join Alchemy as a Staff DevOps Engineer to design and maintain blockchain infrastructure for a global developer platform. Work with cutting-edge technology in a hybrid environment.
Description
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Conditions & Benefits
- Attractive salary package.
Job Details
Market range (est.)$90k–$180k
LocationHybrid
AI Score★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10
PostedSep 24, 2026 (18d ago)
Tags & Skills
cryptodevweb3DevOps Engineerhybrid
Tech Stack
TerraformDevOpsAlertmanagerChefnon-EVM chainsAI agentsautomation toolingBlockchainPagerDutyIstiomicroservice architecturecloud infrastructurebare-metalPuppetHelmCloudFormationArgoCDStatefulSetsPrometheusGitOpsAnsiblenetworkingKubernetesWeb3HybridPulumiGrafanaRPC nodesVPC networks