Alchemy is a Kitchener-based advanced materials company that leverages a proprietary nanotechnology platform to create protective films, coatings, and camouflage materials for automotive and defence applications.
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 - 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 Perks: - 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 - Opportunity to travel across offices