Senior Data Engineer

Alpaca

Remote
Competitive salary & stock options; home-office se...
Remote
7+ years data engineering experience
Python and sql proficiency
Google cloud platform expertise
The company is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with over 9 million brokerage accounts

Job Summary

  • The company is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with over 9 million brokerage accounts.
  • This role involves designing forward- and reverse-ETL patterns to deliver data to stakeholders while managing hundreds of millions of daily events.
  • Employees receive competitive salary and stock options along with a one-time $500 home-office setup stipend and a monthly $150 Brex Card allowance.

Matching Summary

The company is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with over 9 million brokerage accounts.

Salary

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

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 7+ years data engineering experience
  • Python and SQL proficiency
  • Google Cloud Platform expertise
  • Apache Iceberg and relational databases
  • Kafka streaming systems experience
  • Docker Kubernetes and Helm
  • dbt transformation layer development

Nice-to-have

  • Passion for open-source contributions
  • Experience with Terraform IaC
  • Startup environment adaptability
  • Trino distributed query engines
  • Airflow and Airbyte orchestration

Key Requirements

  • 7+ years in data engineering
  • 2+ years building platforms handling >100M events/day
  • Production experience with Kafka
  • Hands-on GCP services like Composer and Dataproc

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