高级站点可靠性工程师
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
我们是谁：
Alpaca 是一家总部位于美国的全球领先代理优先经纪基础设施公司，提供股票、ETF、期权、加密货币、固定收益、24/5 小时交易等服务。
在我们的子公司中，Alpaca 是一家持牌金融服务公司，通过我们机构级 API 为全球 40 个国家的数百家金融机构提供服务。这包括经纪自营商、投资顾问、财富管理公司、对冲基金和加密货币交易所，总计超过 1000 万笔经纪账户。
我们的全球团队由经验丰富的工程师、交易员和经纪专业人士组成，他们致力于实现我们让全球每个人都能获得金融服务的使命。我们高度重视开源贡献，积极培育活跃的社区，持续提升我们获奖的、开发者友好的 API 以及其背后的强大基础设施。
Alpaca 获得了来自顶级全球投资者的 4 亿美元资金支持，包括 Portage Ventures、Spark Capital、Tribe Capital、Social Leverage、Horizons Ventures、Opera Tech Ventures、SBI Group、Derayah Financial、Unbound、Peak XV、Elefund 和 Y Combinator。
我们的团队成员：
我们是一个由 400 多名分布在世界各地的成员组成的活力团队，大家喜欢在世界上的最爱地方工作，团队成员遍布美国、加拿大、日本、匈牙利、尼日利亚、巴西、英国等国家！
我们正在寻找渴望为 Alpaca 的快速增长做出贡献的热情人士。如果你认同我们的核心价值观——保持好奇、富有同理心、承担责任，并准备好产生重大影响，我们鼓励你申请。
你的角色：
作为 Alpaca 的站点可靠性工程师，你将帮助我们在增长过程中保持我们的经纪平台的可靠性、可观测性和可操作性——涉及我们的云基础设施、Kubernetes 平台、可观测性堆栈、消息层和数据层。我们特别关注那些具备扎实 PostgreSQL 基础知识并希望深入负责我们数据库可靠性的人选：PostgreSQL 处于交易关键路径上，我们希望这个人能花相当多的时间来提升它的可靠性，同时在一周的其余时间里仍是一名全面的 SRE。
你将参与的工作内容
- 负责生产环境的日常运营 - 包括值班、事件响应、事后分析及真正闭环的后续跟进。
- 负责可靠性实践 - 定义和优化 SLI/SLO 和错误预算，并帮助产品团队遵守这些指标。
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Who We Are:
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first 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 10 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 $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
Our Team Members:
We're a dynamic team of 400+ 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.
Your Role:
As a Site Reliability Engineer at Alpaca, you'll help keep our brokerage platform reliable, observable, and operable as we grow - working across our cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platform, observability stack, messaging layer, and data layer. We're especially interested in candidates with strong PostgreSQL fundamentals who'd like to grow into deeper ownership of our database reliability posture: PostgreSQL sits on the trading-critical path, and we want this person to spend a meaningful share of their time leveling it up while still being a well-rounded SRE the rest of the week.
Things You Get To Do
- Operate production day-to-day - oncall, incident response, postmortems, and the follow-ups that actually close the loop.
- Own reliability practice - define and refine SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and help product teams live within them.
- Strengthen our observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
- Ship infrastructure through code in a GitOps workflow - cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads alike.
- Look after PostgreSQL: performance tuning, schema and migration review, online migrations on large tables, HA/DR, and CDC pipelines.
- Mentor engineers on reliability and database fundamentals through code review, design review, and pairing.
Who You Are (must-haves)
- 4+ years in SRE, DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or backend engineering with significant production operations ownership.
- Hands-on experience operating production services on Kubernetes, and shipping infrastructure as code in a GitOps workflow.
- Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL in production — query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing and schema trade-offs, and what a safe online migration looks like on a non-trivial table.
- Cloud networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, TLS) and comfort debugging cross-service connectivity.
- Comfortable with a modern observability stack and proficient with Linux at the operator level.
- Practiced in incident response - calm under pressure, structured debugging, postmortems that drive change.
- At least working proficiency in Go or Python, plus strong written and verbal communication.
- Genuine interest in databases and in growing your PostgreSQL/DBA expertise.
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
- Deeper PostgreSQL experience: large clusters at OLTP load, online migrations on big tables, HA/DR ownership, connection pooling at scale, or change-data-capture pipelines.
- Experience with typed SQL access layers in Go (e.g. pgx, gorm, sqlc).
- Production experience with messaging systems at scale (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redpanda).
- Security & compliance experience in a regulated environment (SOC 2, secrets management, audit logging).
- Familiarity with trading, brokerage, or other regulated fintech domains.
How We Take Care of You:
- 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
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
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