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