infrastructure
Posted Mar 31Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Database
at Alpaca
North America (eastern Hours), United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Improve our observability stack (monitoring, logging, profiling)
- Proven track record of managing and maintaining large-scale, high-availability, and high-performance PostgreSQL database. •
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.
- This role requires a blend of software engineering and operations skills, with a strong ability to troubleshoot technical issues and resolve problems before they impact our users.
- experience with multi-terabyte scale PostgreSQL clusters.
- 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 Linux.
- Experience with low-latency systems. •
- Experience with distributed tracing. •
- Experience scaling PostgreSQL clusters rapidly. •
- Experience with pgx, gorm, or sqlc. How We Take Care of You:
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:
- You will work closely with development, operations and devops teams to build and maintain robust applications, ensuring they run smoothly and efficiently.
- Triage difficult technical problems and implement solutions