Site Reliability Engineer

🕒 May 21

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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

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ 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