Senior Data Engineer

🕒 July 27

🏈 North America – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Alpaca

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201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

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.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and evolve the core data platform infrastructure e.g., distributed query engines, orchestration, warehousing, cataloging, and more. • Own our lakehouse infrastructure as code, managing deployments through Terraform and Ansible on Kubernetes. • Build and maintain low-latency streaming and CDC ingestion pipelines, as well as batch ingestion paths landing in Iceberg. • Develop and scale our BI landscape so downstream teams and agents get performant, self-serve access to lakehouse data. • Enforce platform reliability best practices, including monitoring and alerting, on-call rotations, incident response, maintenance windows, runbooks, and SLAs. • Partner with DevOps, Analytics Engineering, and other stakeholders to close infrastructure gaps and support new data requirements.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, including 2+ years building and operating scalable, low-latency data platforms handling > 100M events/day. • Strong hands-on experience running data infrastructure on Kubernetes, with cloud-native tooling like Docker and Helm. • Production experience with IaC: Terraform, Ansible, and ArgoCD (or equivalents). • Deep knowledge of distributed systems (storage, transactions, and query processing) with hands-on experience operating open-source query engines like Trino or Presto. • Strong experience with object storage and open table formats, specifically Apache Iceberg. • Experience with streaming and CDC systems: Kafka, Redpanda, and Debezium. • Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks (Airflow) and ELT tools (Airbyte). • Strong working knowledge of Python and SQL for building pipelines and platform tooling. • Experience with Google Cloud Platform and its data services (GCS, Cloud Build, Cloud SQL, Dataproc, etc); or related experience with other cloud services. • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and adapt infrastructure to rapidly changing needs.

🏖️ 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