Director of Engineering

Role Overview

Join Alchemy as Director of Engineering, Infrastructure & Platform. You will own the vision, strategy, and execution of the company’s core platform—leading multiple teams to ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency at massive scale. You’ll set long-term technical direction, partner with Product and Executive Leadership, and drive execution excellence as the organization scales.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale multiple engineering teams across:
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Platform
  • Data Platform
  • Internal Tooling
• Define and own platform/infrastructure strategy to ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Drive execution excellence by evolving processes, setting clear priorities, and ensuring predictable delivery.
• Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering leaders and ICs.
• Shape and strengthen engineering culture.
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies and ecosystem trends.

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and leading orgs responsible for critical production infrastructure at a high-growth startup.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally and engage with the open-source community.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical decision-making, and ownership mindset.
• Hands-on understanding of large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

Nice-to-Haves / Preferred

• Strong background in Java, Kubernetes (K8s), AWS, multi-region, and multi-cloud.
• Experience balancing pragmatism and speed while maintaining long-term technical health.