Senior Escalation Engineering
Singapore, Singapore
Listed on 2025-11-09
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IT/Tech
IT Support, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity
Who We Are
Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Alpaca serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs, supporting broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges totaling over 6 million brokerage accounts.
Our global team of engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals is committed to opening financial services to everyone on the planet, fostering open-source contributions and enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and infrastructure.
Serve as the primary technical expert for key enterprise customers in the APAC region, leading the resolution of critical and complex customer issues while driving process improvements to increase the efficiency and scalability of our support organization.
Things You Get To Do- Lead Complex L2 Escalations: Proactively engage with enterprise customers to provide hands‑on troubleshooting and resolution for critical technical issues.
- Drive Root Cause Analysis: Lead investigations into recurring technical issues by collaborating with Support, Product, and Engineering teams to identify underlying problems and champion their resolution.
- Improve Support Process Efficiency: Audit escalation workflows and improve via code, tooling, and training to minimize L3 escalations.
- Develop Technical Documentation: Create and manage internal knowledge bases, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides, contributing to public documentation as needed.
- You have 4+ years of experience in technical escalation or support engineering.
- You excel at troubleshooting complex distributed systems and APIs.
- You are proficient with SQL, Kubernetes, and Grafana.
- You drive process improvements and SLA performance.
- You possess superior communication skills on complex technical findings for both internal and external audiences.
- You build strong relationships, establishing trust and rapport with technical teams at enterprise-level partners.
- You understand Fin Tech concepts, API‑driven financial platforms, and ITIL concepts.
- You will work in an APAC shift region, starting at 5:00 PM EST.
- You have experience with GCP, Golang, Kafka, or Rabbit
MQ. - You develop internal support automation tools.
- You contribute to public technical documentation.
- You have experience with performance tuning of Postgres databases.
- You have online securities trading experience.
- Microservices running on Google Cloud Platform via Kubernetes.
- Golang.
- Postgres.
- Rabbit
MQ.
- Must be eligible to work without sponsorship for this role.
- 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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