Senior DevOps Engineer
Alpaca provides developer APIs for stock, options, and crypto trading, enabling businesses and developers to build trading applications and automate investment strategies.
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About Alpaca
Alpaca helps developers and businesses access financial markets through API-first infrastructure for stock, options, and cryptocurrency trading. Users can build algorithmic trading strategies, create investing applications, and integrate brokerage services into their platforms.
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About the Role
You will design, build and operate the infrastructure that lets Alpaca scale globally and run trading-critical systems with confidence. You will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions against clearly defined goals, and a real voice in shaping those goals with the team. You will design and evolve cloud architecture on GCP expressed entirely as code with Terraform, build and own CI/CD pipelines for IaC changes, create self-serve platform capabilities, strengthen the observability stack, operate GKE clusters and the services running on them, participate in a Follow-The-Sun on-call model, and embed SRE practices into how Core Infrastructure builds and operates.
Requirements
- 5+ years in a DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or SRE role with a proven track record operating large-scale, high-availability, high-performance systems in production
- Deep hands-on experience designing cloud architecture on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the primary cloud
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform across multiple environments, with GitOps as a first principle
- Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines for IaC with automated plan/apply, Policy-as-Code, drift detection and safe rollout
- Significant production experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE) and packaging/deploying workloads with Helm
- Solid cloud and L3/L4-L7 networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS, TLS, interconnects)
- Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack: Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Alertmanager
- Operator-level familiarity with data stores such as PostgreSQL and message brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ, RedPanda)
- Good understanding of SRE practices such as SLOs, error budgets and capacity planning
- Strong grasp of incident management end to end, including structured debugging, escalation, documentation and post-mortems
- Able and willing to take part in a Follow-The-Sun on-call rotation from APAC hours and work effectively in a distributed, async-first team
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve cloud architecture on GCP, including networking, interconnects, IAM and high-availability topology, expressed as code with Terraform following GitOps principles
- Build and own CI/CD pipelines that plan, review, test and safely apply IaC changes with Policy-as-Code guardrails, drift detection and progressive rollout
- Advance Platform-as-a-Product by building self-serve capabilities and paved paths so engineers can provision what they need through a golden path
- Strengthen the observability stack across metrics, logs, traces and alerting using Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Alertmanager
- Operate GKE clusters and the infrastructure services running on them, including Helm-packaged workloads, message brokers and data stores
- Participate in the Follow-The-Sun on-call model, triaging alerts, joining and declaring incidents, leading structured debugging and escalation, and driving blameless post-mortems
- Embed SRE practices such as SLIs/SLOs, error budgets and capacity planning into how Core Infrastructure builds and operates
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time USD $500 new hire home-office setup
- Monthly stipend of USD $150 via a Brex Card