Alpaca
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.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Database
November 12
Alpaca
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.
đ Description
⢠Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services. ⢠Work closely with development, operations and devops teams to build and maintain robust applications. ⢠Troubleshoot technical issues and resolve problems before they impact our users. ⢠Triage difficult technical problems and implement solutions. ⢠Improve our observability stack (monitoring, logging, profiling). ⢠Respond to and resolve incidents in a timely manner, conducting post-incident reviews to identify and implement improvements. ⢠Collaborate with development teams to ensure new features and services are designed with reliability and scalability in mind. ⢠Monitor system capacity and performance, making recommendations and implementing changes to handle future growth.
đŻ Requirements
⢠5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering, or similar roles. ⢠5+ years of experience with multi-terabyte scale PostgreSQL clusters. ⢠Proven track record of managing and maintaining large-scale, high-availability, and high-performance PostgreSQL database. ⢠Experience designing and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for internal systems and databases. ⢠Experience with troubleshooting PostgreSQL performance problems and slow queries. ⢠Extensive experience with efficient schema design and efficient query design. ⢠Experience migrating multi-terabyte tables into more efficient schemas. ⢠Proficient with Go. ⢠Proficient with Prometheus. ⢠Proficient with Linux. ⢠Knowledgeable in trading/fintech domains. ⢠Experience with low-latency systems. ⢠Experience with distributed tracing. ⢠Experience scaling PostgreSQL clusters rapidly. ⢠Experience with pgx, gorm, or sqlc.
đď¸ 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
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