Alchemy

Senior Software Engineer, Data Services

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24 hours ago
Remote, United States +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$205k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate blockchain ingestion, indexing, storage, API-serving, and streaming systems.
  • Handle reorganizations, retries, duplicate events, historical backfills, failure recovery, and data correctness concerns.
  • Improve query performance, data freshness, observability, API capabilities, chain coverage, and event-delivery guarantees.
  • Reduce storage, processing, and serving costs through measured architecture and query-execution improvements.
  • Participate in production support and incident response, maintaining monitoring, runbooks, safe rollouts, and preventive fixes.
  • Partner with Product and customer-facing teams to translate developer needs into scoped projects and measure their impact.
  • Ship a customer-facing improvement and take ownership of a production component within the first three months.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience independently designing, shipping, and operating production backend or distributed data systems.
  • Strong programming skills in a production backend language and experience with databases, indexing, and query performance.
  • Understanding of consistency, partitioning, asynchronous processing, and failure recovery.
  • Ability to diagnose production problems and improve systems beyond the immediate fix.
  • Sound API design judgment covering compatibility, pagination, error handling, and data contracts.
  • Clear communication skills and the ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into scoped engineering projects.
  • Blockchain experience is helpful but not required.
  • Helpful experience includes ClickHouse or other analytical databases, Kafka or similar streaming systems, blockchain indexers, EVM logs and traces, finality, non-EVM data models, developer-facing data APIs, real-time delivery, large historical datasets, storage migrations, and production performance or cost optimization.

Benefits

  • Private health insurance.
  • Gym reimbursement.
  • Commuter benefits.
  • Flexible time off.
  • In-office group meals.
  • Learning and development stipend.
  • Company-sponsored conferences and events.
  • Books and audiobook subscription through Bookster.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaClickHouse

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Alchemy

201-500 employees
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