Senior DevOps Engineer

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🇯🇵 Japan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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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 operate platforms behind software delivery, edge and L7 networking, platform access, and application-facing observability. • Support and own the platform in the assigned region and timezone. • Troubleshoot problems across the stack and advise engineering teams on platform usage. • Participate in the regional support rotation. • Watch and triage alerts, join and declare incidents, lead structured debugging and escalation, and drive blameless post-mortems and follow-up actions. • Own the production change path using GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and Helm across multiple clusters and regions. • Run high-traffic edge and API gateway infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of requests daily. • Operate internal production tooling including Grafana, Sentry, Teleport, Metabase, and Atlantis. • Advance Platform-as-a-Product through self-service capabilities and golden paths. • Take improvement projects end to end through production delivery.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in a DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or SRE role, with a proven track record operating large-scale, high-availability, high-performance systems in production. • A track record of carrying multi-quarter platform work end to end in a complex environment running multiple Kubernetes clusters. • Deep production Kubernetes experience across multiple clusters, including upgrades, debugging, day-to-day operational ownership, and packaging and deploying workloads with Helm. • Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform, structuring codebases across multiple environments, with GitOps as a first principle and least-privilege as a default mindset. • Proven experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines at scale, for example with GitHub Actions, including releases that deploy to multiple production locations. • GitOps continuous delivery with Argo CD, or a comparable transferable tool. • Working production experience on Google Cloud, ideally GKE; fluency operating on GCP day to day. • Solid L7 networking fundamentals: load balancing, DNS, TLS, and HTTP routing; comfort debugging the request path from edge to workload. • A Platform-as-a-Product mindset. • Ability and willingness to participate in a Follow-The-Sun on-call rotation from APAC or EMEA hours. • Ability to work effectively in a distributed, async-first team with strong written communication.

🏖️ 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