Site Reliability Engineer

Alpaca

Remote
Competitive salary & stock options; one-time usd $...
Remote
4+ years sre or devops experience
Production kubernetes operations
Postgresql performance tuning and migrations
Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer serving over 9 million brokerage accounts across 40 countries

Job Summary

  • Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer serving over 9 million brokerage accounts across 40 countries.
  • The role involves owning the reliability of PostgreSQL sitting on the trading-critical path while maintaining broader SRE responsibilities.
  • Employees receive competitive salary and stock options along with a $500 home-office setup stipend and $150 monthly Brex Card allowance.

Matching Summary

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer serving over 9 million brokerage accounts across 40 countries.

Salary

Competitive Salary & Stock Options; One-time USD $500 Home-Office Setup; Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 4+ years SRE or DevOps experience
  • Production Kubernetes operations
  • PostgreSQL performance tuning and migrations
  • Cloud networking fundamentals
  • Linux operator level proficiency
  • Incident response and postmortems
  • Go or Python programming proficiency

Nice-to-have

  • Large OLTP cluster experience
  • Typed SQL access layers in Go
  • High-scale messaging systems like Kafka
  • SOC 2 compliance and security
  • Fintech or brokerage domain knowledge
  • Connection pooling at scale

Key Requirements

  • 4+ years production operations ownership
  • Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL
  • Comfortable debugging cross-service connectivity
  • Proficient with Linux at operator level

Work Rights

Not specified

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