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Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.
Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!
We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
As a Site Reliability Engineer at Alpaca, you'll help keep our brokerage platform reliable, observable, and operable as we grow - working across our cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platform, observability stack, messaging layer, and data layer. We're especially interested in candidates with strong PostgreSQL fundamentals who'd like to grow into deeper ownership of our database reliability posture: PostgreSQL sits on the trading-critical path, and we want this person to spend a meaningful share of their time leveling it up while still being a well-rounded SRE the rest of the week.
oncall, incident response, postmortems, and the follow-ups that actually close the loop.
define and refine SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and help product teams live within them.
across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
in a GitOps workflow - cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads alike.
on reliability and database fundamentals through code review, design review, and pairing.
in SRE, DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or backend engineering with significant production operations ownership.
, and shipping infrastructure as code in a GitOps workflow.
— query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing and schema trade-offs, and what a safe migration looks like on a non-trivial table.
(VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, TLS) and comfort debugging cross-service connectivity.
at the operator level.
calm under pressure, structured debugging, postmortems that drive change.
At least working proficiency in
, plus strong written and verbal communication.
Deeper PostgreSQL experience: large clusters at OLTP load, migrations on big tables, HA/DR ownership, connection pooling at scale, or change-data-capture pipelines.
Experience with typed SQL access layers in Go (e.g. pgx, gorm, sqlc).
Production experience with messaging systems at scale (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redpanda).
Security & compliance experience in a regulated environment (SOC 2, secrets management, audit logging).
Familiarity with trading, brokerage, or other regulated fintech domains.
Competitive Salary & Stock Options
Health Benefits
New Hire Home-Office Setup:-time USD $500
Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
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The salary for this role is $400 per annum.
What experience is required?
4+ years of experience is required.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Alpaca · Remote - Global
