Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Streaming

November 21

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Alpaca

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API • Fintech • Crypto

Alpaca is a fintech company that provides a comprehensive brokerage and trading platform through a suite of APIs. These APIs enable developers and businesses to integrate algorithmic trading, app development, and embedded investing into their services. Alpaca offers services like trading in US stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrency with options for local currency transactions. The company is recognized for its cyber security practices and is a member of FINRA and SIPC. Alpaca is ideal for fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other financial services looking to build sophisticated trading applications and platforms with minimal friction through their well-documented Broker API.

201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

📋 Description

• Triage difficult technical problems and implement solutions • Enhance our RabbitMQ and Redpanda observability stack by defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and alerts, as well as implementing profiling and logging. • Improving our RabbitMQ and Redpanda clients' reliability. • Incident Management: Respond to and resolve incidents in a timely manner, conducting post-incident reviews to identify and implement improvements. • Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to ensure new features and services are designed with reliability and scalability in mind. • Capacity Planning: Monitor system capacity and performance, making recommendations and implementing changes to handle future growth.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering, or similar roles. • 5+ years of experience with message brokers similar to Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redpanda. • Proven track record of managing and maintaining large-scale, high-availability, and high-performance distributed systems. • Experience designing and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for internal and third-party systems with comprehensive alerting and monitoring. • Strong ability to work independently, lead and deliver on large tasks, and collaborate with other members of the organization or external partners. • Significant production experience with Kubernetes. • Proficient with Go. • Proficient with Prometheus. • Proficient with Linux. • Experience with troubleshooting message broker performance issues.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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