DevOps Technical Lead
Alchemy
Estimated Salary: $75K-$125K
Location: Bucharest
Our Mission
Our mission is to bring web3 to a billion people, by providing builders with the tools they need to build exceptional onchain products. Alchemy is the only complete developer platform that offers the powerful APIs, SDKs, and tools necessary to build and scale onchain apps and rollups.
Our infrastructure powers 70% of the top web3 teams, 90%+ of web2 companies building in web3 and 100+ million end users. Our customers include top web3 brands like Polymarket, OpenSea, Circle, WorldCoin, as well as major global brands like Shopify and Adobe.
The Alchemy team draws from decades of deep expertise in massively scalable infrastructure, AI, and blockchain from leadership roles at leading companies and universities like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Stanford, and MIT.
We're backed by the world's leading VCs and institutions, including: Lightspeed, Silver Lake, a16z, Coatue, Pantera, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, and Charles Schwab, among others.
The Role
As a
DevOps Tech Lead
at Alchemy, you’ll lead a team of engineers responsible for building and scaling one of the most sophisticated, high-throughput infrastructures in the blockchain world. You’ll focus on
architecting, automating, and optimizing systems
that power millions of global users, ensuring
high availability, performance, and security
. Beyond the technical leadership, you’ll also
grow and mentor the team
, shape best practices, and drive a culture of operational excellence.
What You'll Do:
Own the
end-to-end lifecycle
of infrastructure design, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
Architect and implement
scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure
(primarily AWS)
Drive the adoption of
Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks
Develop and enforce best practices for
observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response
Partner closely with backend, security, and product engineering teams to ensure smooth, reliable service delivery
Lead
technical design discussions, post-mortems, and architecture reviews
with a focus on scalability, reliability, and developer velocity
Identify and proactively address
performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and system vulnerabilities
Eventually (6 mos-12 mos in the role) lead and mentor a high-performing DevOps team, fostering growth, collaboration, and technical excellence
Balance
hands-on contributions
with
technical leadership and people management
What We're Looking For:
7+ years of relevant industry experience
Strong expertise in
cloud platforms, bare metal
and distributed systems
Proven experience
building, scaling, and maintaining production infrastructure
at high throughput and low latency
Hands-on proficiency with
Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
Experience with
observability stacks
(Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.)
Strong background in
automation, scripting, and tooling
(Python, Go, or similar)
Excellent ability to
diagnose and resolve complex system, scaling, or performance issues
Interest in leading
high-performing teams
, including hiring, coaching, and mentoring engineers
Self-starter mindset with the ability to balance
technical depth, team leadership, and strategic impact
Experience in Web3 or high-growth startups, a plus
Entrepreneurial appetite (founded a company, drove internal company projects or built side projects), a plus