Senior SRE: PostgreSQL Reliability & GitOps (Remote)

Devopsroles; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & stock options

One-time USD 500 home-office setup

Monthly USD 150 stipend

Job summary

Alpaca, a US-headquartered brokerage infrastructure leader, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help keep our trading platform reliable, observable, and operable while growing our cloud and data stack. The role emphasizes PostgreSQL reliability, incident response, and deep ownership of infrastructure across Kubernetes and GitOps workflows.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in SRE/DevOps, hands-on Kubernetes, and strong Python or Go skills, with a passion for building scalable,

Qualifications

• 4+ years in SRE/DevOps with production ownership.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and GitOps experience.
• Strong PostgreSQL fundamentals in production.

Responsibilities

• Operate production day-to-day including on-call and postmortems.
• Define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets with teams.
• Improve observability across metrics, logs, traces and alerts.
• Ship infrastructure as code via GitOps for cloud and Kubernetes.
• Manage PostgreSQL performance, migrations, HA/DR, and CDC.

Skills

SRE experience

Kubernetes

GitOps

PostgreSQL in prod

Linux (operator)

Go or Python

Incident response

Observability

Cloud networking

SQL tuning

Tools

pgx

gorm

sqlc

Job description

Alpaca, a US-headquartered brokerage infrastructure leader, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help keep our trading platform reliable, observable, and operable while growing our cloud and data stack. The role emphasizes PostgreSQL reliability, incident response, and deep ownership of infrastructure across Kubernetes and GitOps workflows.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in SRE/DevOps, hands-on Kubernetes, and strong Python or Go skills, with a passion for building scalable,