Get the chrome extension Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Alpaca
Who We Are:
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
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.
Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
Our Team Members:
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.
Your Role:
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.
Things You Get To Do
- Operate production day-to-day - oncall, incident response, postmortems, and the follow-ups that actually close the loop.
- Own reliability practice - define and refine SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and help product teams live within them.
- Strengthen our observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
- Ship infrastructure through code in a GitOps workflow - cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads alike.
- Look after PostgreSQL: performance tuning, schema and migration review, online migrations on large tables, HA/DR, and CDC pipelines.
- Mentor engineers on reliability and database fundamentals through code review, design review, and pairing.
Who You Are (must-haves)
- 4+ years 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 — query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing and schema trade-offs, and what a safe online migration looks like on a non-trivial table.
- Cloud networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, TLS) and comfort debugging cross-service connectivity.
- Comfortable with a modern observability stack and proficient with Linux at the operator level.
- Practiced in incident response - calm under pressure, structured debugging, postmortems that drive change.
- At least working proficiency in Go or Python, plus strong written and verbal communication.
- Genuine interest in databases and in growing your PostgreSQL/DBA expertise.
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
- Deeper PostgreSQL experience: large clusters at OLTP load, online 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.
How We Take Care of You:
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
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Software Engineer
Mackin Talent
This is a remote position.
Summary:
We are looking for Software Engineer cover to build and maintain the automation that keeps a large UGC application healthy in production across every surface it ships on.
In this role you will build and operate the systems that keep a large UGC application healthy in production. It ships as a single product across multiple surfaces: natively on VR headsets, and on mobile and PC via cloud streaming (Horizon Cross Screen). You will work alongside the runtime and KTLO (keep-the-lights-on) team, focused on reducing manual operational and on-call work through automation, keeping the cloud rendering and deployment pipelines healthy, and keeping CI/CD functional as upstream dependencies change.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain automation that keeps a large VR application healthy in production (release pipelines, build health, crash triage, incident detection)
- Maintain and improve an AI-assisted code repair system that creates and lands fix diffs autonomously
- Develop tooling to automatically identify broken builds, pinpoint root-cause changes, and recommend or execute fixes
- Monitor production quality metrics and respond to regressions and outages
- Reduce manual on-call burden through automation, with a goal of cutting recurring operational work by 80–90%
- Complete required infrastructure migrations to keep CI/CD pipelines functional as upstream dependencies are retired
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent
- Proven experience building and operating CI/CD, build, release, and cloud deployment pipelines at scale
- Experience operating cloud services and server-side fleets in production, including reliability, capacity, and latency
- Experience building or operating AI-assisted developer tooling or agents that generate or repair code
- Experience building tooling that detects broken builds and traces failures to their root-cause change
- Experience with production monitoring, crash triage, and incident response for a large-scale, multi-surface application
- A track record of reducing operational and on-call load through automation
- Experience completing infrastructure or dependency migrations without breaking downstream CI/CD
Desirable
- Experience with cloud game or application streaming, or remote rendering
- Experience with asset delivery or CDN pipelines at scale
- Experience with capacity, latency, or session-orchestration monitoring for streamed workloads
- Experience operating live-service or large-scale production applications (Live Ops)
- Familiarity with large monorepo build systems and dependency management
- Experience designing self-healing or auto-remediation systems
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Healthcare contribution and inclusion in company pension scheme
- Work laptop and phone
- 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) plus paid bank holidays
- Expanding workforce with potential for career progression for top performers
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