高级软件工程师 - 市场数据
Senior Software Engineer - Market Data
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交易等服务。
在我们的子公司中，Alpaca 是一家获得许可的金融服务公司，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 万个经纪账户。
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，致力于实现我们让全球每个人都能享受金融服务的使命。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充满活力的团队，大家在自己喜欢的地方工作，团队成员遍布美国、加拿大、日本、匈牙利、尼日利亚、巴西、英国等地！
我们正在寻找热忱的个人，希望为 Alpaca 的快速发展做出贡献。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。
作为高级软件工程师，你将帮助构建和扩展构成 Alpaca 基础的系统和服务，赋能数百万用户交易价值数十亿美元的资产。
市场数据团队负责改进与数据产品（如股票、期权、加密货币和外汇市场）相关的 Alpaca 整体架构。负责监督其在流式传输和历史端点上的公共 API 结构和文档。该团队负责构建一致的开发者优先 API，并负责规划、构思、实验和将新服务和库投入生产，以解决我们在快速扩展过程中面临的最大技术挑战之一。
我们正在寻找有经验的高级或资深工程师，他们注重提供高质量的解决方案，具备扎实的基础知识，并且
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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.
As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.
The market data team is responsible for improving the overall architecture of Alpaca connected to data products such as stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets. Oversee their public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and is tasked with planning, ideating, experimenting, and putting into production the new services, and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly.
We are looking for senior or staff engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions. This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.
Things You Get To Do:
- Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems
- Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts)
- Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matters
- Maintain good software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
- You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
- At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
- Experience with at least compiled imperative languages (e.g. Go, C, C++, Rust, etc.). Most of our critical services are written in Go
- SQL or relational database skills
- Familiarity with TCP/IP, and UDP networking
- Proficient with Linux/BSD, and shell scripting
- Excited about what we are building at Alpaca
- Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams
- Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems (we primarily use Kubernetes via GKE)
- Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
- A passion for financial markets
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
- Experience with Market Data
- Knowledge of microservice architectures
- Knowledge of clean code principles
- DevOps mindset is an asset
- Cloud Networking experience (BGP, VPC peering)
- Experience in building low-latency applications
- Experience with distributed key-value stores
- Experience with CI/CD
- A passion for financial markets or the desire to learn
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling
- Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking
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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