Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Alpaca provides developer APIs for stock, options, and crypto trading, enabling businesses and developers to build trading applications and automate investment strategies.

Maintainer signals as of 8/29/2026

20 North San Mateo Drive, San Mateo, California, United States
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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Skills

About the Role

Operate production systems through on-call support, incident response, postmortems, and follow-up actions. Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, strengthen observability, ship cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure through GitOps, improve PostgreSQL reliability, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform/infrastructure, or backend engineering with significant production operations ownership
  • Production Kubernetes operations experience
  • Infrastructure as code and GitOps experience
  • Production PostgreSQL experience including query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing, schema trade-offs, and safe online migrations
  • Cloud networking fundamentals including VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, and TLS
  • Experience with modern observability stacks
  • Linux operator-level proficiency
  • Incident response experience
  • Working proficiency in Go or Python
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • Interest in databases and PostgreSQL/DBA expertise

Responsibilities

  • Operate production systems through on-call support and incident response
  • Conduct postmortems and complete follow-up actions
  • Define and refine SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
  • Strengthen observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
  • Ship cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads through a GitOps workflow
  • Tune PostgreSQL performance
  • Review schemas and migrations
  • Perform online migrations on large tables
  • Manage PostgreSQL high availability and disaster recovery
  • Maintain change-data-capture pipelines
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and pairing

Benefits

  • Stock options
  • Health benefits
  • One-time USD 500 new-hire home-office setup
  • USD 150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card