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 and oversee forward- and reverse-ETL patterns to deliver data to stakeholders.
  • Develop scalable transformation-layer patterns that enable repeatable integrations with BI tools across business verticals.
  • Expand and maintain the Alpaca Data Lakehouse architecture.
  • Collaborate with sales, marketing, product, and operations teams to address data flow needs.
  • Operate the system and resolve production issues promptly.
  • Support batch, streaming, transformation, consumption, experimentation, cataloging, monitoring, and alerting components of the data platform.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in data engineering.
  • 2+ years of experience building scalable, low-latency data platforms handling more than 100M events per day.
  • Strong working knowledge of Python and SQL.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language.
  • Experience with cloud-native technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
  • Hands-on experience with relational databases and object storage implementations such as Apache Iceberg.
  • Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and data services such as Composer, Dataproc, and Datastream.
  • Experience building scalable transformation layers, preferably using formalized SQL models such as dbt.
  • Experience with ETL orchestrators or frameworks such as Apache Airflow and Airbyte.
  • Production experience with streaming systems such as Kafka.
  • Exposure to infrastructure, DevOps, and Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform.
  • Deep knowledge of distributed systems, storage, transactions, and query processing using engines such as Trino (formerly PrestoSQL).
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt solutions to changing business needs.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with stock options.
  • Health benefits.
  • One-time USD $500 new hire home-office setup stipend.
  • Monthly USD $150 stipend via Brex Card.

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