Alpaca

Alpaca

Alpaca is a developer-first API for stock and crypto trading, offering easy-to-use APIs for building apps and trading algorithms.

Capital Markets
51-250
Founded 2015
$87M raised

Description

  • Design, build, and evolve core data platform infrastructure, including query engines, orchestration, warehousing, and cataloging.
  • Own lakehouse infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible, with deployments on Kubernetes.
  • Build and maintain low-latency streaming, CDC, and batch ingestion pipelines landing data in Apache Iceberg.
  • Develop and scale self-service BI access to lakehouse data for downstream teams and agents.
  • Implement reliability practices including monitoring, alerting, on-call rotations, incident response, maintenance windows, runbooks, and SLAs.
  • Partner with DevOps, Analytics Engineering, and other stakeholders to address infrastructure gaps and evolving data requirements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Data Engineering experience, including 2+ years operating scalable, low-latency platforms processing over 100 million events per day.
  • Hands-on experience running data infrastructure on Kubernetes with Docker and Helm.
  • Production experience with infrastructure as code, including Terraform, Ansible, and ArgoCD or equivalent tools.
  • Deep knowledge of distributed storage, transactions, and query processing, with experience operating Trino or Presto.
  • Strong experience with object storage and open table formats, specifically Apache Iceberg.
  • Experience with Kafka, Redpanda, and Debezium for streaming and CDC.
  • Experience with Airflow orchestration and Airbyte ELT pipelines.
  • Strong Python and SQL skills for pipeline and platform development.
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform data services such as GCS, Cloud Build, Cloud SQL, and Dataproc, or equivalent cloud technologies.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced startup environment; experience with tools such as Cube, dbt, Looker, Hightouch, OpenMetadata, DataHub, or Apache Ranger is preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options.
  • Health benefits.
  • $500 one-time new-hire home-office setup allowance.
  • $150 monthly stipend through a Brex Card.
  • Fully distributed, remote work environment.

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