About Us
Alpaca is a hyper growth financial technology company that is democratizing global access to financial markets starting with our API-first stock brokerage. In just two years, billions of dollars of securities are traded every month via our API and rapidly increasing.
About the Role
Reporting into the VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for daily administration of internal systems and technical requests from our brokerage team.
What You'll Do
About You
You have 5+ years of experience in DevOps, sysadmin, or database administration
You have significant experience with Postgres, including replication and recovery
You have experience with Kubernetes
You have a deep understanding of modern containerization systems (we use Docker)
You are familiar with modern distributed logging, monitoring, and metrics systems
You are familiar with Git for distributed source code version control
You have significant experience with POSIX Operating Systems (Linux/BSD, etc)
You have excellent communication skills and value good documentation and writing
You are familiar with shell scripting
You are comfortable in at least one programming language
You have worked with either GCP or AWS
Bonus Points:
You have experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana
You have experience with Prometheus (including Prometheus Alerts) and Grafana
You have experience with RabbitMQ or Kafka
You are familiar with distributed tracing
Experience with Golang
Strong Postgres scaling and performance tuning experience (including overseeing the management of both self managed instances and cloud managed instances)
You are familiar with information security best practices
Our Tech & Infrastructure Stack:
Microservices running on Google Cloud Platform via Kubernetes
Golang
Postgres
RabbitMQ
Alpaca is a hyper growth financial technology company that is democratizing global access to financial markets starting with our API-first stock brokerage. In just two years, billions of dollars of securities are traded every month via our API and rapidly increasing.
Alpaca’s globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage business specialists and backed by a group of well-capitalized investors including Spark Capital, Portag3, Social Leverage, Y Combinator as well as highly experienced industry angel investors. We are also very tech-enthusiastic with notable track records in open source and startup communities.