Site Reliability Engineer Database

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 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 6 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals, working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet.

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Alpaca, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services. 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
• Improve our observability stack (monitoring, logging, profiling)
• Respond to and resolve incidents in a timely manner, conducting post‑incident reviews to identify and implement improvements
• Work closely with development teams to ensure new features and services are designed with reliability and scalability in mind
• Monitor system capacity and performance, making recommendations and implementing changes to handle future growth

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering, or similar roles
• 5+ years of experience with multi‑terabyte scale Postgre
  
  SQL clusters
• Proven track record of managing and maintaining large‑scale, high‑availability, and high‑performance Postgre
  
  SQL databases
• Experience designing and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for internal systems and databases
• Experience troubleshooting Postgre
  
  SQL 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 Prometheus
• Proficient with Linux
• Knowledgeable in trading/fintech domains
• Experience with low‑latency systems
• Experience with distributed tracing
• Experience scaling Postgre
  
  SQL clusters rapidly
• Experience with pgx, gorm, or sqlc

• 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.