Alchemy
Staff DevOps Engineer
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · Bucharest
Employer listed it 3 months ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 3 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Hybrid · Bucharest
Work style
Async
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Bucharest, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Bucharest, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
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
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
- ·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
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Alchemy, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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