Senior DevOps Engineer: Scale Global Infra as a Platform

Alpaca; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

Stock Options

Home‑Office Setup: USD 500

Monthly Stipend: USD 150

Job summary

Alpaca, a fast-growing US-headquartered brokerage infrastructure provider, seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, high-availability systems for global trading. You’ll own cloud architecture on GCP, implement Terraform-based GitOps pipelines, and advance Platform-as-a-Product with self-serve capabilities.

Join a distributed, async-first team, work on observability with Prometheus/Grafana, manage GKE workloads, and participate in Follow-The-Sun on-call with a focus

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or SRE role, with a proven track record operating large-scale, high-availability systems in production.
• Deep hands-on experience designing cloud architecture on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the primary cloud.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform, structuring large codebases across multiple environments, with GitOps as a first principle and least-privilege as a default mindset.
• Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines for IaC - automated plan/apply, code review, Policy-as-Code, drift detection and safe rollout.
• Significant production experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE) and packaging/deploying workloads with Helm.
• Solid cloud and L3/L4-L7 networking fundamentals and comfort debugging cross-service connectivity.
• Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack - Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Alertmanager.
• Operator-level familiarity with data stores such as PostgreSQL and Message Brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ) - able to run and troubleshoot them in production.
• A good understanding of SRE practices - SLOs/error budgets, capacity planning - and a Platform-as-a-Product mindset.
• Strong grasp of incident management end to end: joining and declaring incidents, structured debugging under pressure, escalation, clear documentation, and post-mortems that drive real change.
• Able to take part in a Follow-The-Sun on-call rotation from APAC hours, and to work effectively in a distributed, async-first team with strong written communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve our cloud architecture on GCP - networking, interconnects, IAM and high-availability topology - and express it entirely as code with Terraform, following GitOps as a first principle.
• Build and own the CI/CD pipelines that plan, review, test and safely apply IaC changes - Policy-as-Code guardrails, drift detection and progressive rollout so infrastructure changes ship as confidently as application code.
• Advance Platform-as-a-Product: build self-serve capabilities and paved paths so engineers can provision what they need, through a golden path rather than a hand-off.
• Strengthen our observability stack - metrics, logs, traces and alerting across Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Alertmanager - so you can run and reason about the platform.
• Operate our GKE clusters and the infrastructure services that run on them - Helm-packaged workloads, message brokers (RabbitMQ, IBM MQ) and data stores.
• Participate in our Follow-The-Sun on-call model: watch and triage alerts, join and declare incidents, lead structured debugging and escalation, and drive blameless post-mortems and the post-actions that actually close the loop.
• Embed SRE practices - SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, capacity planning - into how Core Infrastructure builds and operates, working closely with our SRE function.

Skills

DevOps

GCP

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Monitoring

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Tools

Helm

Go

RedPanda

Job description

Alpaca, a fast-growing US-headquartered brokerage infrastructure provider, seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, high-availability systems for global trading. You’ll own cloud architecture on GCP, implement Terraform-based GitOps pipelines, and advance Platform-as-a-Product with self-serve capabilities.

Join a distributed, async-first team, work on observability with Prometheus/Grafana, manage GKE workloads, and participate in Follow-The-Sun on-call with a focus