Alpaca
Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Database
Remote - North America (Eastern Hours) · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
GoPostgreSQLDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringSparkCollaboration
About the role
- As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Alpaca, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services.
- This role requires a blend of software engineering and operations skills, with a strong ability to troubleshoot technical issues and resolve problems before they impact our users.
- Improve our observability stack (monitoring, logging, profiling)
Responsibilities
- Triage difficult technical problems and implement solutions
- Respond to and resolve incidents in a timely manner, conducting post-incident reviews to identify and implement improvements.
- Incident Management: Respond to and resolve incidents in a timely manner, conducting post-incident reviews to identify and implement improvements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering, or similar roles.
- 5+ years of experience with multi-terabyte scale PostgreSQL clusters.
- Experience with troubleshooting PostgreSQL performance problems and slow queries.
- Extensive experience with efficient schema design and efficient query design.
- Experience migrating multi-terabyte tables into more efficient schemas.
- Experience with low-latency systems.
- Experience with distributed tracing.
- Experience scaling PostgreSQL clusters rapidly.
Skills
- Proven track record of managing and maintaining large-scale, high-availability, and high-performance PostgreSQL database.
- Experience designing and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for internal systems and databases.
Compensation
- One-time USD $500
- USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Benefits
- Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Company info
- Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
- Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 9 million brokerage accounts.
- Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
- Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
- Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
- Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs.
- This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 9 million brokerage accounts.
- Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet.
- We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
- Our Team Members:
- We're a dynamic team of 380+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!
- We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth.
- If you align with our core values-Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable-and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
This listing is sourced directly from Alpaca's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.