Senior Software Engineer - Market Data

On-site

Responsibilities

Oversee their public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints.
Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems
Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems
Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matters
Maintain good software quality and test coverage
Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams •

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.
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.
We are looking for senior or staff engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven
This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.
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
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)
Experience with Market Data
Knowledge of microservice architectures
Knowledge of clean code principles
Cloud Networking experience (BGP, VPC peering) •
Experience in building low-latency applications •
Experience with distributed key-value stores •
Experience with CI/CD