Staff Software Engineer: Streaming Platform Architect

Alpaca; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

New Hire Home-Office Setup

Monthly stipend

Job summary

Alpaca is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Platform team to own the technical direction of Alpaca's streaming platform, based on Redpanda, with focus on authentication, developer experience and QA. You will drive architecture, RFCs, and cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced fintech environment.

You will spend most time in Go, helm charts, logs, metrics, and be the technical leader who shapes the roadmap two years out while mentoring peers and owning reliability initiatives across the

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience in large-scale systems.
• Proven depth in event streaming systems (Kafka/Redpanda) and real-time data delivery.
• Experience leading cross-team technical direction and RFCs.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of Alpaca's streaming platform end to end (Redpanda, UTS ecosystem, client libraries, user-facing streaming).
• Lead the shift from batch to event-driven across systems and drive standards for event-driven design.
• Mentor engineers, review designs, and lead incident response in shared infrastructure.

Skills

Go

System design

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Kafka/Redpanda

Kubernetes/Helm

PostgreSQL

SRE/Chaos testing

Job description

Alpaca is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Platform team to own the technical direction of Alpaca's streaming platform, based on Redpanda, with focus on authentication, developer experience and QA. You will drive architecture, RFCs, and cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced fintech environment.

You will spend most time in Go, helm charts, logs, metrics, and be the technical leader who shapes the roadmap two years out while mentoring peers and owning reliability initiatives across the