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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

4 weeks ago
Remote
Full-time
Senior
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
DevOps and Infrastructure
DNS GitOps Go Kafka Kubernetes Linux Load Balancing PostgreSQL Python RabbitMQ Secrets Management TLS
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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
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Description

  • Operate production systems day to day, including on-call support, incident response, and postmortems.
  • Define and refine SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to improve reliability.
  • Improve observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
  • Ship infrastructure as code through a GitOps workflow for cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads.
  • Support PostgreSQL reliability through performance tuning, schema and migration review, online migrations, high availability/disaster recovery, and CDC pipelines.
  • Mentor engineers on reliability and database fundamentals through code review, design review, and pairing.

Requirements

  • 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 working knowledge of PostgreSQL in production, including query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing, schema trade-offs, and safe online migrations on non-trivial tables.
  • Cloud networking fundamentals, including VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, and TLS, with comfort debugging cross-service connectivity.
  • Comfort with a modern observability stack and proficiency with Linux at the operator level.
  • Experience with incident response, including structured debugging and postmortems that drive change.
  • Working proficiency in Go or Python, plus strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Genuine interest in databases and in growing PostgreSQL/DBA expertise.
  • Deeper PostgreSQL experience with large OLTP clusters, online migrations on big tables, HA/DR ownership, connection pooling at scale, or change-data-capture pipelines (preferred).
  • Experience with typed SQL access layers in Go such as pgx, gorm, or sqlc (preferred).
  • Production experience with messaging systems at scale such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Redpanda (preferred).
  • Security and compliance experience in a regulated environment, including SOC 2, secrets management, or audit logging (preferred).
  • Familiarity with trading, brokerage, or other regulated fintech domains (preferred).

Benefits

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

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