Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 6 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role:

Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will oversee the configuration, provisioning, and management of large cloud-hosted systems and microservices; including scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and recovery.

Things You Get To Do:

Design, maintain and expand our infrastructure defined in code (IaC)
Oversee systems and resources for alerting, logging, backups, disaster recovery, and monitoring
Help Alpaca scale by defining the direction of our infrastructure architecture
Work alongside our engineering in building fault-tolerant & resilient microservices that are in line with our infrastructure's best practices
Improve the performance and durability of our CI/CD pipelines
Build out automated tooling to automate the provisioning of on-demand Kubernetes namespaces
You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

You have 5+ years of experience in DevOps or a similar role
You have significant experience with Kubernetes at scale
You have a deep understanding of modern containerization systems (we use Docker)
You are familiar with modern distributed logging, monitoring, and metrics systems
You have deep experience building and scaling continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
You have deep familiarity with Git for distributed source code version control
You have excellent communication skills and value good documentation and writing
Strong understanding and comfort with POSIX Operating Systems (Linux/BSD, etc)

Who You Might Be

(Nice-to-Haves):

You have experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana
You have experience with Prometheus (including Prometheus Alerts) and Grafana
You are familiar with distributed tracing
Experience with multi-region high availability
Experience with Golang
Strong Postgres scaling and performance tuning experience (including overseeing the management of both self-managed instances and cloud-managed instances)
You are familiar with security engineering best practices or have experience with SOC 2
FinTech experience

Our Tech & Infrastructure Stack:

Microservices running on Google Cloud Platform via Kubernetes
Colocated systems in close proximity to financial hubs with cross-connects to data partners and market execution venues
Golang
Postgres
RabbitMQ

Must be eligible to work without sponsorship for this role.

How We Take Care of You:

Competitive Salary & Stock Options
Health Benefits
New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

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