Staff Software Engineer – Platform

🔥 18 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform 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

• Own the end-to-end architecture and two-to-three-year direction of Alpaca’s Redpanda-based event streaming platform, UTS ecosystem, client libraries, and user-facing streaming • Lead the transition from batch processing to event-driven systems across Alpaca • Design user-facing streaming at scale, including connection fan-out, slow consumers, backpressure, ordering, delivery guarantees, and failure modes • Establish standards for event-driven design, including schema evolution, topic ownership, replay, and idempotency • Own shared libraries, including versioning and deprecation decisions • Shape AuthN/AuthZ direction and lead identity-related streaming work, including real-time subscription authorization, token lifecycle, and multi-tenant isolation • Help shape Alpaca’s AI-native development platform through schemas, contracts, and event streams • Partner with SRE on chaos testing and game days, and with QA on test tooling and pre-production gates • Lead through influence, mentoring, design reviews, and delegation • Join the Platform on-call rotation and serve as technical lead during shared-infrastructure incidents

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience, including several years running systems at real scale • Proficiency in Go, or deep experience in another strongly-typed language with willingness to learn Go quickly • Production expertise architecting Kafka or Redpanda event streaming systems, including partitioning, consumer groups, rebalancing, retention, and delivery guarantees • Experience delivering realtime data to clients at scale using WebSockets, SSE, or gRPC streaming • Experience handling fan-out, slow consumers, and backpressure in production • Experience driving technical direction across team boundaries without formal authority • Experience writing RFCs and owning technical decisions • Experience building or maintaining libraries used by multiple teams • Knowledge of backward compatibility and deprecation • Experience mentoring senior engineers • Real depth in at least one adjacent area: identity and access, developer tooling and CI, or testing and resilience • Kubernetes expertise beyond the basics, including writing Helm charts and understanding security best practices; job experience or certifications to prove it • Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL • Previous startup experience and ability to work in ambiguous, changing environments • Nice-to-have: IDL or binary serialization formats such as Protobuf, Avro, or FlatBuffers • Nice-to-have: Change data capture, such as Debezium or PeerDB, and PostgreSQL logical replication • Nice-to-have: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT lifecycle, Keycloak, or Cognito • Nice-to-have: Agentic or AI-native developer tooling • Nice-to-have: Chaos engineering, game days, load testing, or fault-injection testing • Nice-to-have: Infrastructure as code with Argo CD or Terraform • Nice-to-have: Grafana observability stack, including Prometheus and Tempo • Nice-to-have: Fintech or regulated-domain experience

🏖️ 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