Senior Data Services Engineer - Blockchain Backend

Alchemy; United States; Sur place; USD 140 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health insurance

HSA

Flexible time off

Group meals

401k plan

Company retreats

Conferences and events

Gym membership

Commuting benefits

Relocation bonus

Paid parental leave

Home office stipend

Résumé du poste

Alchemy is seeking an experienced backend/data systems engineer to build and operate ingestion, indexing, storage, and API-serving systems for Data Services. You will own end-to-end backend components, improve data quality and freshness, and collaborate with product teams to deliver reliable, scalable data APIs for developers.

You will focus on reducing latency and cost, implementing explicit guarantees for ordering and replay, and driving production-readiness through testing and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Proven track record designing and operating production backend or distributed data systems.
• Strong experience with a production backend language and data stores.
• Ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into scoped engineering projects.
• Sound API design judgment, including pagination and data contracts.

Responsabilités

• Own backend projects from ingestion through serving, ensuring data correctness, freshness and fast queries.
• Collaborate with product and customer teams to translate needs into reliable software improvements.
• Build and operate ingestion, indexing, storage, and API-serving systems.
• Handle retries, reorganizations, and backfills without data loss or corruption.
• Improve query performance and data freshness, with observability for the team and customers.
• Extend API capabilities and chain coverage with robust tests.
• Develop streaming and event delivery with ordering, replay, and failure guarantees.
• Reduce storage/compute costs via architecture improvements and query optimization.
• Participate in production support and incident response with playbooks and safe rollouts.

Connaissances

Backend programming

Databases

Indexing

Query optimization

Streaming systems

Description du poste

Alchemy is seeking an experienced backend/data systems engineer to build and operate ingestion, indexing, storage, and API-serving systems for Data Services. You will own end-to-end backend components, improve data quality and freshness, and collaborate with product teams to deliver reliable, scalable data APIs for developers.

You will focus on reducing latency and cost, implementing explicit guarantees for ordering and replay, and driving production-readiness through testing and runbooks.