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

Financials

51-250 (167)

Founded 2015

$87M raised

31 open positions

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Senior Software Engineer - Market Data

2 months, 1 week ago

North America

Full-time

Senior

Software Engineer

Software Development

Agile C C++ CI/CD GCP Go Kubernetes Linux Microservices Rust Scrum Shell Scripting SQL TCP/IP

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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 31

Description

Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems.
Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems.
Implement backend services and lead architecture decisions focused on scalability and resilience.
Optimize system performance with a strong focus on latency.
Maintain software quality and test coverage.
Participate in code reviews.
Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs.
Participate in on-call support for timely engineering projects.
Plan, experiment with, and productionize new services and libraries for the market data platform.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale.
Experience with compiled imperative languages such as Go, C, C++, or Rust.
SQL or relational database experience.
Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP networking.
Proficiency with Linux/BSD and shell scripting.
Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams.
Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems; Alpaca primarily uses Kubernetes via GKE.
Experience with major cloud platforms; Alpaca primarily uses GCP.
Deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.
A passion for financial markets.
Knowledge of microservice architectures is preferred.
Knowledge of clean code principles is preferred.
Cloud networking experience such as BGP and VPC peering is preferred.
Experience building low-latency applications is preferred.
Experience with distributed key-value stores is preferred.
Experience with CI/CD is preferred.
Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies is preferred.
Experience with observability, tracing, and continuous profiling is preferred.
Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking is preferred.
Knowledge of eBPF is preferred.

Benefits

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

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