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

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51-250 (167)

Founded 2015

$87M raised

38 open positions

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Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

1 month, 1 week ago

Anywhere

Full-time

Senior

SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test)

Quality Assurance and Testing

Docker GCP GitHub Actions Go gRPC Helm K6 Kafka Kubernetes Microservices Python REST API Terraform TypeScript

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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

View All Jobs 38

Description

Develop a comprehensive testing strategy for the API surface.
Improve developer experience by standardizing tooling and infrastructure.
Coordinate with other teams to improve test coverage, reliability, and speed.
Mentor and guide product engineers to foster a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests for the platform.
Build and maintain automated and manual testing infrastructure.
Gather requirements, implement technical solutions, deploy changes, and monitor results.
Dig into application code when needed to support testing and reliability work.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or Senior Quality Assurance Engineer.
At least 1 year of experience with Go.
Experience writing code in strongly typed languages.
Experience building and maintaining CI pipelines, including GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build.
Experience with microservices and building reliable integration and end-to-end tests.
Experience designing and building automated test frameworks.
Strong Kubernetes knowledge beyond the basics, including writing Helm charts and understanding security best practices.
Prior startup experience.
Ability to own tasks end to end from requirements through deployment and monitoring.
Experience in Python or TypeScript, Dockerfiles, and secure container images (nice to have).
Experience with k6, ghz, pprof, or trace analysis (nice to have).
Experience with Argo CD, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine, Tilt, or Kubernetes Operators (nice to have).
Familiarity with testing event-driven systems using Kafka or Redpanda (nice to have).

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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