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.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will manage, design, and develop our large-scale cloud infrastructure where low latency and reliability are both critical, forming the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.
The team is responsible for maintaining the cloud infrastructure and supporting infrastructure layer applications such as databases, message brokers, observability tools, etc. while working closely with software engineering teams.
For this role, we are seeking an experienced devops engineer who can perform well in a distributed working environment. In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals in cooperation with the team.
Things You Get To Do:- Management of our postgreSQL database clusters - scale, fine-tune, improve stability and observability as we grow
- Manage our Kubernetes clusters, and infrastructure service components that are used by our applications - such as message brokers, monitoring, continuous delivery and others
- Manage our underlying infrastructure in Google Cloud, including external and internal network connectivity
- Take part of the rotation to watch alerts and dispatch other engineering team’s requests
- at least 5 years of experience in a DevOps role, or in a similar field.
- Strong ability to work independently, lead and deliver on large tasks, and collaborate with other members of the organization or external partners
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL replication, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and production database maintenance
- Significant production experience with Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by maintaining production applications on it
- Strong ability to troubleshoot issues in PostgreSQL, K8s, cloud and finding the root cause
You can successfully start working in this position without having some of the following skills, but it will be necessary to acquire them in the early stages:
- Always think with IT security in mind
- Good communicator in both sync and async channels, and value good documentation
- Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining software you'll be responsible for
- Strong understanding and comfort with Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) and shell usage
- Deep understanding of Docker/containerd
- Experience building and scaling continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
- Familiarity with Git for distributed source control and branching strategies
- Experienced in multi-regional high availability
- Experience building a development environment with Tilt
- Experience with Golang
- Experience with L2/L3 networking
- 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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