Senior Software Engineer Market Data
Job in
Papillion, Sarpy County, Nebraska, 68046, USA
Listed on 2026-06-04
Listing for:
Framework Ventures
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-06-04
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Senior Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Summary
As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.
Responsibilities- Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems
- Design highly scalable, mission‑critical systems
- Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts)
- Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matters
- Maintain good software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs
- Be on‑call to assist with timely engineering projects
- At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
- Experience with compiled imperative languages (Go, C, C++, Rust, etc.)
- Knowledge of SQL or relational database skills
- Familiarity with TCP/IP, and UDP networking
- Proficient with Linux/BSD and shell scripting
- Proven track record of architecting and leading medium‑scale projects involving multiple teams
- Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems (primarily GKE)
- Experience with major cloud platforms (primarily GCP)
- A passion for financial markets
- Knowledge of microservice architectures
- Knowledge of clean code principles
- Dev Ops mindset
- Cloud Networking experience (BGP, VPC peering)
- Experience in building low‑latency applications
- Experience with distributed key‑value stores
- Experience with CI/CD
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling
- Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking
- Knowledge of eBPF
- Competitive salary & stock options
- Health benefits start on day 1 (medical, dental, vision in the US; supplemental in Canada; local benefits in Japan; stipend internationally)
- One‑time USD $500 new‑hire home‑office setup
- Monthly stipend USD $150 via a Brex Card
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
#J-18808-LjbffrPosition Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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