2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed query engines, lakehouse storage, orchestration systems, and streaming pipelines.
- Build scalable regional platform deployments using Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation.
- Develop real-time data processing, analytics, and alerting capabilities.
- Partner with AI and Data Science teams on agentic workflows, evaluations, and ML lifecycle tooling.
- Evolve data catalog, governance, and access controls.
- Own platform reliability through observability, on-call participation, and operational improvements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and own projects from design through production.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data infrastructure, platform engineering, or software engineering with end-to-end production-system ownership.
- Strong Python and SQL skills and experience building reliable pipelines, services, or platform tooling.
- Experience building or operating distributed data systems such as query engines, lakehouses, or streaming platforms.
- Experience operating cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation.
- Sound operational judgment, clear technical communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience with Trino, Presto, Spark, Apache Iceberg, Kafka, Redpanda, Flink, Debezium, ClickHouse, Pinot, Druid, MLflow, Vertex AI, MCP servers, retrieval systems, agent observability, or LLM evaluation.
- Preferred experience designing and operating infrastructure across multiple cloud regions, including workload isolation and cost-performance trade-offs.
Benefits
- 100% distributed and remote work arrangement.
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Health benefits.
- One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup benefit.
- USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About Alpaca
Alpaca builds brokerage infrastructure APIs and operates a self-clearing broker-dealer, enabling fintechs, institutions, and developers to embed trading in stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income. Its platform includes account opening, clearing, custody, and compliance tooling, with revenue from brokerage and platform fees. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Alpaca serves clients in 40+ countries through its subsidiaries.