engineering
Posted Mar 31Senior Software Engineer - Platform
at Alpaca
On-site
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve our Redpanda-based event streaming infrastructure
- Develop the replacement for Alpaca’s aging authentication and authorization services
- Create event-driven solutions to replace batch processing all across our systems
- Maintain good software quality and test coverage
- Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs
Requirements
- 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.
- Most of our time is spent writing Go code, but we also work on Helm charts, analyze logs and metrics, manage our own deployments, and, in general, get called in to help with a large variety of tasks.
- You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature Who You Are (must-haves)
- experience writing code in strongly-typed languages, with at least one year of experience in Go .
- You are familiar with Kubernetes beyond the basics - you can write a Helm chart for a new service with relative ease, you understand best practices around security, and you have prior job
- experience or certifications to prove this.
- You have worked with relational databases before - we use PostgreSQL , but we are not particularly picky about this one as long as you have a solid grasp on the fundamentals.
- You understand how Kafka works - maybe you even worked with Redpanda before.
- You have done IaC deployments with Argo CD or Terraform , or have used Google Cloud Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine before. You have
- experience with Grafana ’s observability stack - Prometheus , Tempo and all the rest. You might have even written a PromQL query for a new alert once or twice.
- You are familiar with FlatBuffers and Protocol Buffers , have written or consumed gRPC services before, and can design simple RESTful APIs . How We Take Care of You:
Experience
- You have 5+ years of
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
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Additional details
- 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 .
- 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. 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. Your Role
- We are looking for experienced developers who are not afraid to get their hands dirty with managing infrastructure.
- We own both client-facing and internal services, we maintain shared libraries, and we manage our own deployments.