Senior DevOps Engineer

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Oversee the configuration and management of cloud-hosted systems, improving infrastructure architecture, resilience, and CI/CD performance while managing a diverse global engineering team.

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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Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Home Office Stipend: New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
  • Monthly stipend via Brex Card: Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Who We Are: Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, Options, Cryptocurrencies, and more, and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries, and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as broker-dealers, investment advisors, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges as well as millions of individual customers all over the world.   Alpaca’s globally distributed team members bring in diverse experiences such as engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals to achieve our Mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are also deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community. We will continue to enhance and improve our award-winning developer-friendly API and the brokerage infrastructure behind it. Our Team Members: We’re a team of 200+ globally distributed members who love working from our favorite places worldwide. Our team spans the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and more! We’re looking for candidates eager to join Alpaca’s growing organization, who are excited about our Mission of “Open[ing] financial services to everyone on the planet” and share our Values of “Stay Curious,” “Have Empathy,” and “Be Accountable.”

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