Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Database

Alpaca

Remote, USA
Competitive salary & stock options; health benefit...
Remote
5+ years site reliability engineering experience
Multi-terabyte scale postgresql cluster management
High-availability postgresql database maintenance
The role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems serving over 9 million brokerage accounts in a high-frequency trading environment

Job Summary

  • The role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems serving over 9 million brokerage accounts in a high-frequency trading environment.
  • Candidates will be responsible for triaging difficult technical problems, improving observability stacks, and managing incidents with a focus on rapid resolution.
  • Alpaca offers competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, and a monthly stipend to support remote work from anywhere globally.

Matching Summary

The role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems serving over 9 million brokerage accounts in a high-frequency trading environment.

Salary

Competitive Salary & Stock Options; Health Benefits included; One-time $500 home-office setup; Monthly $150 stipend

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 5+ years Site Reliability Engineering experience
  • Multi-terabyte scale PostgreSQL cluster management
  • High-availability PostgreSQL database maintenance
  • Go programming language proficiency
  • Prometheus monitoring stack expertise
  • Linux system administration skills
  • Low-latency distributed tracing experience

Nice-to-have

  • Trading or fintech domain knowledge
  • Efficient schema and query design skills
  • pgx, gorm, or sqlc library experience
  • Post-incident review and improvement culture
  • Open-source contribution mindset

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years SRE or Performance Engineering experience
  • 5+ years experience with multi-terabyte PostgreSQL clusters
  • Proficiency in Go programming language
  • Experience designing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
  • Knowledge of low-latency system architecture

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