Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Streaming

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, 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering, or similar roles.
• 5+ years of experience with message brokers similar to Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redpanda.
• Proven track record of managing and maintaining large-scale, high-availability, and high-performance distributed systems.
• Experience designing and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for internal and third-party systems with comprehensive alerting and monitoring.
• Strong ability to work independently, lead and deliver on large tasks, and collaborate with other members of the organization or external partners.
• Significant production experience with Kubernetes.
• Proficient with Go.
• Proficient with Prometheus.
• Proficient with Linux.
• Experience with troubleshooting message broker performance issues.

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