Alchemy - Senior Software Engineer, Data Services
Requirements
• A track record of independently designing, shipping, and operating production backend or distributed data systems. • Strong programming skills in a production backend language, plus experience with databases, indexing, and query performance. • Experience reasoning about consistency, partitioning, asynchronous processing, and failure recovery. • Evidence that you can diagnose a production problem and improve the system beyond the immediate fix. • Sound API design judgment, including compatibility, pagination, error handling, and data contracts. • Clear communication and the ability to turn an ambiguous customer problem into a scoped engineering project. • Blockchain experience is helpful, but not required. You should be interested in learning how chain behavior affects data correctness. • ClickHouse or other analytical databases; Kafka or similar streaming systems. • Blockchain indexers, EVM logs and traces, finality, or non-EVM data models. • Developer-facing data APIs, real-time delivery, or large historical datasets. • Storage migrations and performance or cost optimization under production traffic. • What Success Looks Like • Within three months: • You have shipped a customer-facing improvement and can show its effect on data quality, freshness, latency, or cost. • You own a production component, have tested its recovery behavior, and have proposed the next improvement using operational evidence and developer feedback.
Responsibilities
• Build and operate blockchain ingestion, indexing, storage, and API-serving systems. • Handle reorganizations, retries, duplicate events, and historical backfills without silently losing or corrupting data. • Improve query performance and data freshness. Make those properties observable to the team and understandable to customers. • Extend API capabilities and chain coverage, with tests for differences in chain behavior and data semantics. • Develop streaming and event-delivery capabilities with explicit guarantees for ordering, replay, and failure recovery. • Reduce the cost of storing, processing, and serving data through measured changes to architecture and query execution. • Participate in production support and incident response for the systems you own. Maintain monitoring, runbooks, safe rollouts, and fixes that prevent recurrence.
Benefits
• $205K – $230K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Why are you interested in joining Alchemy? • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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