Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Database

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering, or similar roles.
• 5+ years of experience with multi-terabyte scale PostgreSQL clusters.
• 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.
• 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.
• Proficient with Go.
• Proficient with Prometheus.
• Proficient with Linux.
• Knowledgeable in trading/fintech domains.
• Experience with low-latency systems.
• Experience with distributed tracing.
• Experience scaling PostgreSQL clusters rapidly.
• Experience with pgx, gorm, or sqlc.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Health Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card