Site Reliability Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified
• Description: Alchemy is building a complete developer platform for web3, powering 70% of the top web3 teams and 90%+ of web2 companies building in web3. The Infrastructure team focuses on enhancing developer productivity and ensuring product reliability as the platform scales.

Company Information

• Mission: To bring web3 to a billion people.
• Platform: A complete developer platform offering APIs, SDKs, and tools for building onchain products and rollups.
• Customers: Top web3 brands (Polymarket, OpenSea, Circle, WorldCoin), and major global brands (Shopify, Adobe).
• Team Expertise: Draws from decades of experience in massively scalable infrastructure, AI, and blockchain from leading companies and universities (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Stanford, MIT).
• Funding: Backed by leading VCs and institutions including: Lightspeed, Silver Lake, a16z, Coatue, Pantera, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, and Charles Schwab.

The Role

• Department: Infrastructure
• Focus: Designing, deploying, and continuously improving the infrastructure supporting Alchemy's developer platform, with a focus on enhancing developer productivity and ensuring product reliability.

What You'll Do

• Reliability Focus: Set high standards for Reliability at Alchemy.
• Best Practices: Develop and own company-wide Reliability best practices (SLO definition, incident management, postmortem reviews, launch readiness reviews, change management).
• Architecture: Architect production infrastructure and tools that encourage and enforce high reliability.
• Influence: Inspire the broader engineering organization to ensure Reliability is a first-class citizen in the products they build.
• Collaboration: Collaborate, partner, advise, review, and mentor engineering teams on Reliability topics.
• Infrastructure Improvements: Improve critical infrastructure and systems used to operate infrastructure at scale (compute, networking, deployment, observability, code tooling/libraries).
• Best Practices (Operations): Develop and own best practices for managing production infrastructure: provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, capacity planning, monitoring, etc.
• Developer Processes: Develop and own best practices for developer processes: CI/CD, dev and staging environments, etc.
• Long-Term Requirements: Provide input into long-term platform requirements and operational guidelines with a focus on reliability.
• Engineering Excellence: Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding, testing.

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