engineering
Posted 3 weeks agoSenior Fullstack Engineer - Operational Automations
at Alpaca
On-site
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Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, deploy, and monitor production automations and UIs that remove manual steps and reduce operation time.
- Execute operational procedures to surface painful manual processes prior to automation.
- Produce Platform Opportunity Briefs / RFCs for higher-level platform tooling and automations
- Collaborate with licensed BD leadership, Compliance, and Security to build auditable, safe automations with role-based access and clear runbooks.
- Own the full lifecycle of the systems you build, including automated deployment (CI/CD with tools like ArgoCD and Terraform), proactive monitoring, On-call support rotations and incident response, following a "you build it, you run it" philosophy.
- Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as a first-class concern to ensure transparency for our auditors and regulators. Who You Are (must-haves)
- Proven track record of building user-facing features end-to-end with Typescript/React
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.
- Strong business sense and understanding of operations
- Deep, hands-on expertise in Golang, including a strong command of its concurrency models (goroutines, channels), memory management, and standard library.
- Proficient with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
- Demonstrated ability to reason about human workflows as systems, not just software services. •
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex
- Knowledge of service oriented architectures •
- Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP).
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies Demonstrable
- experience in designing, building, and reasoning about distributed systems, including a strong understanding of microservices architecture and API design patterns (e.g., REST, gRPC). •