2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Operate production systems through on-call, incident response, postmortems, and follow-up remediation.
- Define and refine SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets and help product teams operate within them.
- Strengthen observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
- Ship cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads as infrastructure through code in a GitOps workflow.
- Own PostgreSQL performance tuning, schema and migration reviews, online migrations on large tables, HA/DR, and CDC pipelines.
- Mentor engineers on reliability and database fundamentals through code reviews, design reviews, and pairing.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform/infrastructure, or backend engineering with significant production operations ownership.
- Hands-on experience operating production services on Kubernetes and shipping infrastructure as code in a GitOps workflow.
- Solid production PostgreSQL knowledge, including query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing, schema trade-offs, and safe online migrations.
- Knowledge of cloud networking fundamentals including VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, and TLS.
- Comfort with a modern observability stack and proficiency with Linux at the operator level.
- Experience with incident response, structured debugging, and postmortems that drive change.
- Working proficiency in Go or Python and strong written and verbal communication.
- Genuine interest in databases and growing PostgreSQL/DBA expertise.
- Preferred: deeper PostgreSQL experience with large OLTP clusters, online migrations, HA/DR, connection pooling, or CDC pipelines.
- Preferred: experience with typed SQL access layers in Go, such as pgx, gorm, or sqlc.
- Preferred: production experience with RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Redpanda at scale.
- Preferred: security and compliance experience in regulated environments, including SOC 2, secrets management, or audit logging.
- Preferred: familiarity with trading, brokerage, or regulated fintech domains.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup
- USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card
- Globally distributed team
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
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.