Alchemy
Senior Software Engineer, Data Services
$205K–$230K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York
About the job
Build and operate backend systems that ingest, index, store, and serve blockchain data through developer-facing APIs and streaming capabilities.
What you'll do
- Build and operate blockchain data pipelines and API-serving systems, handling reorganizations, retries, duplicates, and historical backfills.
- Improve data correctness, freshness, query performance, observability, and infrastructure cost; extend APIs and chain coverage.
- Own production support and incident response, including monitoring, runbooks, safe rollouts, and recovery improvements.
What they ask for
- Track record of independently designing, shipping, and operating production backend or distributed data systems.
- Strong programming skills in a production backend language, with experience in databases, indexing, and query performance.
- Experience with consistency, partitioning, asynchronous processing, and failure recovery.
- Sound API design judgment and ability to diagnose production problems and turn customer needs into scoped engineering work.
Nice to have
- ClickHouse or other analytical databases; Kafka or similar streaming systems.
- Blockchain indexers, EVM logs and traces, finality, or non-EVM data models.
Pay
$205K – $230K (base salary)
Tools
ClickHouse, Kafka, EVM
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