Home

Jobs

Infrastructure

California

The RoleAs Director of Engineering, Infrastructure & Platform, you will own the vision, strategy, and execution of one of the most sophisticated, high-throughput distributed systems in the blockchain ecosystem. You’ll lead multiple teams responsible for the core platform that powers Alchemy’s products, where reliability, performance, and cost efficiency at massive scale are mission-critical.In this role, you will set the long-term technical direction for platform infrastructure, partner closely with Product and Executive Leadership, and ensure Alchemy continues to operate at the frontier of Web3 infrastructure. Your work will enable developers to move faster with confidence and help unlock blockchain adoption for the next billion users.What You'll Do:<ul><li>Lead and scale multiple engineering teams across Cloud Infrastructure, Platform, Data Platform, and Internal Tooling, including distributed and international teams.</li><li>Define and own the platform and infrastructure strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across the organization.</li><li>Serve as a senior technical leader, influencing architecture and systems design for large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.</li><li>Partner with Product, Security, Finance, and Executive Leadership to align platform investments with company goals and customer needs.</li><li>Drive execution excellence by evolving processes, setting clear priorities, and ensuring predictable delivery as the organization scales.</li><li>Stay ahead of emerging technologies and ecosystem trends (Web3, cloud infrastructure, AI) and translate them into actionable technical strategy.</li><li>Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering leaders and ICs; provide coaching that raises the technical bar across teams.</li><li>Own hiring strategy and workforce planning for the org, recruiting top-tier talent and developing future leaders.</li><li>Shape and strengthen Alchemy’s engineering culture through standards, mentorship, and programs that promote continuous learning and innovation.</li></ul>What We're Looking For:<ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.</li><li>10+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in distributed systems.</li><li>5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and leading orgs responsible for critical production infrastructure at high-growth startup.</li><li>Strong hands-on understanding of large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure</li><li>Experience with Java, kubernetes, K8s, AWS, multi-region, multi-cloud is strongly preferred.</li><li>Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.</li><li>Exceptional judgment and decision-making skills, especially when balancing speed, quality, and long-term technical health.</li><li>Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and engage with the open-source community.</li><li>Strong ownership mindset; comfortable operating with ambiguity and driving initiatives end-to-end</li><li>Ability to balance perfection with pragmatism and ship impactful solutions quickly.</li><li>Passion for building platforms that enable others and curiosity about emerging technologies—crypto, AI, and complex systems.</li></ul>More on The RoleAlchemy is committed to offering competitive compensation, including base salary as well as equity. Additionally, Alchemy offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as other benefits such as 401k and unlimited flexible time off.

Director of Engineering, Infrastructure & Platform

About the RoleAs an engineer in the Infrastructure department at Alchemy, you will design, deploy, and continuously improve the infrastructure powering our blockchain developer platform — serving 100+ chains, billions of daily requests, and over $150B in annual transactions.The Infrastructure team provides the infrastructure, tooling, and expertise needed to allow Alchemy engineers to ship, scale, and operate high-quality products in a fast, safe, and cost-efficient manner.What You'll Do<ul><li>Architect and operate scalable, self-healing infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native tools across multi-region deployments.</li><li>Drive AI enablement across engineering — ensuring repos, tooling, and workflows are optimized for agentic development with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.</li><li>Build AI-powered infrastructure tooling and automation (e.g., automated K8s upgrades, IaC plan analysis, cost optimization advisors, MCP servers, n8n workflows).</li><li>Build and maintain internal developer platform (IDP) capabilities for self-service deployments, observability, and reliability.</li><li>Develop observability frameworks using Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, dashboards, and alerting.</li><li>Lead incident management with blameless post-mortems; define and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across services.</li><li>Design and manage multi-cloud, multi-region network architecture — VPC design, IPAM, DNS (Cloudflare), cross-cloud connectivity, security groups, and edge-proxy/istio gateway configuration.</li><li>Collaborate with security teams to embed compliance into infrastructure, including IaC scanning and runtime protection.</li><li>Provide technical leadership and mentorship to elevate the team's operational capabilities.</li></ul>What We're Looking For<ul><li>5+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer focused on reliability (SRE, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer).</li><li>Experience driving company-wide reliability efforts, including SLO frameworks and error budget policies.</li><li>Strong proficiency with observability stacks: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana.</li><li>Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, and multi-region architectures.</li><li>Skilled with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD) with an automation-first mindset.</li><li>Experience leveraging agentic development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) and workflow automation (n8n) to accelerate IaC and build internal tooling is a strong plus.</li><li>Solid networking fundamentals — VPC design, DNS, IPAM, security groups, cross-cloud connectivity, and service mesh (e.g., Istio) experience is a plus.</li><li>Strong cross-functional communicator across SRE, security, and product engineering.</li><li>Blockchain infrastructure, distributed systems, or high-throughput RPC experience — not required but a plus.</li></ul>Benefits and Perks🩺 Medical, Dental, & Vision💪 Gym Reimbursement🖥️ Home Office Build-out Budget🥙 In-Office Group Meals🧘‍♂️ Wellbeing & Mental Health Perks📚 Learning & Development Stipend🎉 Company Sponsored Conferences & Events💸 HSA and FSA Plans🧬 Fertility BenefitsMore on the RoleAlchemy is committed to offering competitive compensation, including base salary as well as equity. Additionally, Alchemy offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as other benefits such as 401k and unlimited flexible time off.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Aptos is a people-first blockchain on a mission to help billions of people achieve universal and fair access to decentralized assets in a safe and scalable way.Founded by some of the original creators and maintainers that researched, designed, and built the Diem blockchain to serve this purpose, we have dedicated several years toward this mission. We believe the open-source Diem technology we have developed is an important foundation of a safe and scalable web3 world where everyone has more equitable opportunities to grow and access financial assets with lower fees and fewer intermediaries.  Aptos (Ohlone for "The People") encompasses our mission and ethos for why we build.About The RoleWe're looking for a talented, driven Senior Software Engineer to build the critical infrastructure that powers the Aptos blockchain ecosystem.This role will have significant impact and visibility - the systems you build will directly enable thousands of developers to build on Aptos. You'll work on APIs, indexers, node infrastructure, SDKs, and developer tools that form the foundation of the network. You'll help shape technical direction and may grow into leading other engineers as the team scales.You should love solving hard distributed systems problems and have a passion for building robust, scalable infrastructure. You will be joining a lean team with a lot of autonomy – you should be a self-starter and thrive on self-directed work in a fast-paced environment.This role sits in our Palo Alto, CA or New York, NY office.What you'll be doing:<ul><li>Leading initiatives to design, build, and optimize backend services and platform infrastructure for the Aptos blockchain</li><li>Developing scalable APIs, indexing services, and data pipelines to support blockchain data access</li><li>Building and maintaining infrastructure for node operations, monitoring, and observability</li><li>Building and maintaining SDKs, libraries, and developer tools</li><li>Writing clean, performant, well-tested, and production-ready code</li><li>Collaborating closely with protocol engineers, infrastructure teams, and product engineers</li></ul>What you bring:<ul><li>5+ years of experience building and shipping scalable backend systems</li><li>Strong experience building backend systems in languages such as Rust, Go, C++, Java, Python, or similar</li><li>Deep understanding of systems programming concepts</li><li>Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases, and API design</li><li>Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment</li><li>Experience with blockchain infrastructure, indexing, or node operations (a plus)</li><li>Web3 experience or familiarity (a plus)</li><li>Background in payments, DeFi, or TradFi (a plus)</li><li>Comfortable leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and code quality</li></ul>The base salary range for this full-time position is $160k - $260k. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and typical maximum target for new hire salaries for the position of a candidate based in the Bay Area at any level. We do hire exceptionally talented professionals with decades of experience in their field. As such, our range may be higher than what is displayed. Our base salary ranges are determined by experience and location, and we hire at all levels for multiple roles. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location, job-related skills demonstrated during the interviews, working experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include equity, tokens, or benefits.#LI-PG1Our Benefits<ul><li>100% insurance premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents (US Employees)</li><li>Equipment of your choice</li><li>Flexible vacation time, 11 holidays, and floating company days off </li><li>Competitive Salary</li><li>Protocol Token Grants</li><li>401k matching (US Employees)</li><li>Fun and inclusive in-person and digital events</li></ul>Aptos is committed to diversity in the workplace, and we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not hire on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal law. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.We are committed to providing a safe and secure hiring process for all applicants. Unfortunately, there are individuals who may attempt to impersonate Aptos or our employees for fraudulent purposes.To protect yourself, please be aware of the following:<ul><li>We will never ask you for payment of any kind during the application or onboarding process, including fees for background checks, training, or equipment.</li><li>We will always communicate with you using our official company email domain.</li><li>We will never request your personal financial information, such as your social security number or bank account details, during the initial application stages or via email or a video/voice call when onboarding.</li></ul>

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

<h5>Our Mission</h5>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.<h5>About the Role</h5>As an engineer in the Infrastructure department at Alchemy, you will design, deploy, and continuously improve the infrastructure powering our blockchain developer platform — serving 100+ chains, billions of daily requests, and over $150B in annual transactions.The Infrastructure team provides the infrastructure, tooling, and expertise needed to allow Alchemy engineers to ship, scale, and operate high-quality products in a fast, safe, and cost-efficient manner.<h5>What You'll Do</h5><ul><li>Architect and operate scalable, self-healing infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native tools across multi-region deployments.</li><li>Drive AI enablement across engineering — ensuring repos, tooling, and workflows are optimized for agentic development with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.</li><li>Build AI-powered infrastructure tooling and automation (e.g., automated K8s upgrades, IaC plan analysis, cost optimization advisors, MCP servers, n8n workflows).</li><li>Build and maintain internal developer platform (IDP) capabilities for self-service deployments, observability, and reliability.</li><li>Develop observability frameworks using Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, dashboards, and alerting.</li><li>Lead incident management with blameless post-mortems; define and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across services.</li><li>Design and manage multi-cloud, multi-region network architecture — VPC design, IPAM, DNS (Cloudflare), cross-cloud connectivity, security groups, and edge-proxy/istio gateway configuration.</li><li>Collaborate with security teams to embed compliance into infrastructure, including IaC scanning and runtime protection.</li><li>Provide technical leadership and mentorship to elevate the team's operational capabilities.</li></ul><h5>What We're Looking For</h5><ul><li>5+ years as an Infrastructure Engineer focused on reliability (SRE, Production Engineer, Platform Engineer).</li><li>Experience driving company-wide reliability efforts, including SLO frameworks and error budget policies.</li><li>Strong proficiency with observability stacks: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana.</li><li>Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, and multi-region architectures.</li><li>Skilled with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD) with an automation-first mindset.</li><li>Experience leveraging agentic development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) and workflow automation (n8n) to accelerate IaC and build internal tooling is a strong plus.</li><li>Solid networking fundamentals — VPC design, DNS, IPAM, security groups, cross-cloud connectivity, and service mesh (e.g., Istio) experience is a plus.</li><li>Calm and effective incident responder with a focus on systemic improvement.</li><li>Strong cross-functional communicator across SRE, security, and product engineering.</li><li>Blockchain infrastructure, distributed systems, or high-throughput RPC experience — not required but a plus.</li></ul><h5>Benefits and Perks</h5>🩺 Medical, Dental, & Vision💪 Gym Reimbursement🖥️ Home Office Build-out Budget🥙 In-Office Group Meals🧘‍♂️ Wellbeing & Mental Health Perks📚 Learning & Development Stipend🎉 Company Sponsored Conferences & Events💸 HSA and FSA Plans🧬 Fertility Benefits<h5>More on the Role</h5>Alchemy is committed to offering competitive compensation, including base salary as well as equity. Additionally, Alchemy offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as other benefits such as 401k and unlimited flexible time off.The base salary range for this position is estimated to be between $135,000 - $240,000 annually. Please note this range reflects base salary only, and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Your salary will be determined by various factors, including relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business needs.

<h5>Our Mission</h5>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.<h5>About The Role</h5>We're looking for a Growth PM who can own the next chapter of how Alchemy grows. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role at the intersection of product, engineering, and go-to-market — and the surface area is expanding fast. Our AI agent platform lets autonomous software create wallets, pay for API access in real time, and operate fully on-chain, opening up an entirely new category of user to acquire, activate, and retain. You'll bring structure to ambiguity, move fast, and build something that compounds. You'll have full end-to-end ownership of the growth motion — strategy, experimentation, and the number. You'll have a direct line to leadership, high visibility across the org, and the resources to move fast and make a real dent.What You'll Do<ul><li>Own the full growth funnel — set the strategy, define the metrics, and drive acquisition, activation, retention, and expansion across our developer platform</li><li>Identify and build the compounding loops that turn great developer experience into organic growth — referrals, word of mouth, community, virality</li><li>Deeply instrument the product to understand where developers convert, where they drop off, and what moves the needle</li><li>Run a high-velocity experimentation program — rapid A/B tests, sharp hypotheses, and a relentless focus on finding what works</li><li>Unlock new growth channels: SEO, lifecycle, partnerships, PLG motions — and figure out which bets compound fastest at our scale</li><li>Open up an entirely new growth surface: AI agents are becoming first-class users of developer platforms, and nobody has cracked how to acquire, activate, and retain them yet</li></ul><h5>What we're looking for</h5><ul><li>4+ years in product, 2–3+ with true end-to-end ownership of growth — you've moved a metric that mattered and can show your work</li><li>Deep growth craft — funnel analysis, cohort modeling, experimentation design, channel strategy. You think in loops, not campaigns</li><li>Experience with developer-facing or API-first products — Web2 (Stripe, Twilio, Vercel) or Web3, fluency in either translates</li><li>Analytical and decisive — you build models fast, pressure-test assumptions, and act on signal</li><li>Strong enough to align engineering, marketing, and sales around a growth motion without direct authority</li></ul><h5>Benefits and Perks:</h5>🩺  Medical, Dental, & Vision💪  Gym Reimbursement🖥️  Home Office Build-out Budget🥙  In-Office Group Meals🧘‍♂️  Wellbeing & Mental Health Perks📚 Learning & Development Stipend🎉  Company Sponsored Conferences & Events💸  HSA and FSA Plans🧬  Fertility Benefits<h5>More on the Role</h5>Alchemy is committed to offering competitive compensation, including base salary as well as equity. Additionally, Alchemy offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as other benefits such as 401k and unlimited flexible time off.The base salary range for this position is estimated to be between $160,000 - $220,000 annually. Please note this range reflects base salary only, and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Your salary will be determined by various factors, including relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business needs.

Senior Product Manager, Growth

7 link clicks.

Circle

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on Circle’s Platform team, you’ll design, build, and operate the infrastructure that powers our blockchain platform at scale. You’ll own the reliability, performance, and automation of distributed blockchain systems across multiple public cloud environments, leveraging Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and modern SRE practices to deliver resilient, secure, and highly available services. Working closely with engineering, protocol, product, and security teams, you’ll build AI-powered tooling and automation that improves operational excellence, accelerates developer productivity, and enables the rapid delivery of new blockchain capabilities. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in high-ownership environments, enjoys solving complex distributed systems challenges, and is passionate about advancing the reliability and scalability of blockchain infrastructure.

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco

Web3 Infrastructure jobs in CaliforniaEarn 💰 $195k-$257k salary with theseCircle and other crypto companies

Browse 1+ Web3 Infrastructure jobs in California paying $195k-$257k/year at Circle. Apply now! Updated September 2026

Web3 Infrastructure Jobs in California

Web3 Infrastructure Jobs in California - $195k-$257k/year

Join upcoming X Space: Market Pulse

Coinbase

Trezor

Chainlink

CoW DAO

ConsenSys

CoinMarketCap

DappRadar

Ethereum Foundation

New York State Attorney General

THORChain

Bitrefill

Parity Technologies

Certik

Doodles NFT

P2P.org

Argent Wallet

f2pool

Aavegotchi

Lightcurve

Zerion

Stake Fish

Runtime Verification

Chainalysis

1inch

Job Title	Company Name	Salary	Location	Tags
Staff Site Reliability Engineer	Circle	195k-257k/year		SREInfrastructureKubernetesAI
Past and filled jobs:
Director of Engineering, Infrastructure & Platform	Alchemy	300k-350k/year		Full TimeRemoteEngineeringDirector
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer	Alchemy	135k-240k/year		Full TimeRemoteDeveloperInfrastructure
Senior Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure	Aptos	160k-260k/year	📍 California	Full TimeDeveloperSeniorInfrastructure
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer	Alchemy	135k-240k/year	📍 California	Full TimeDeveloperInfrastructureEngineering
Senior Product Manager, Growth	Alchemy	160k-220k/year	📍 California	Web3DeveloperMarketingEngineering

Web3 Infrastructure Jobs in California

Latest Infrastructure Jobs.

Past and filled jobs:

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Circle

Hiring Infrastructure Talent?