Senior SRE — Trading Platform Reliability & PostgreSQL

Alpaca; United States; À distance; USD 140 000 - 200 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary and stock options

Health benefits and home-office setup

Monthly stipend via Brex Card

Résumé du poste

Alpaca, a US-headquartered brokerage infrastructure leader, is seeking an experienced SRE to keep our trading platform reliable and observable. You will work across cloud infrastructure, a Kubernetes platform, observability stack, messaging layer, and data layer to support rapid growth.

You will focus on PostgreSQL reliability on the trading-critical path, participate in incident response, and collaborate with a global team to ship robust, scalable infrastructure with strong security/compliance

Qualifications

• 4+ years in SRE, DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or backend with production ops ownership.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, GitOps, PostgreSQL in production, cloud networking, and Linux.
• Incidents response experience and strong Go or Python skills.

Responsabilités

• Help keep the brokerage platform reliable, observable, and operable as Alpaca grows.
• Work across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platform, observability stack, messaging layer, and data layer.
• Spend meaningful time leveling up PostgreSQL reliability since it sits on the trading-critical path.

Connaissances

Kubernetes

GitOps

PostgreSQL

Cloud networking

Linux

Go

Python

Incident response

Communication

Outils

Go

Python

PostgreSQL tooling

Monitoring tools

Description du poste

Alpaca, a US-headquartered brokerage infrastructure leader, is seeking an experienced SRE to keep our trading platform reliable and observable. You will work across cloud infrastructure, a Kubernetes platform, observability stack, messaging layer, and data layer to support rapid growth.

You will focus on PostgreSQL reliability on the trading-critical path, participate in incident response, and collaborate with a global team to ship robust, scalable infrastructure with strong security/compliance