Senior Site Reliability Engineer
AlpacaAPI Brokerage company
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About the role
TL;DR
Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure platform reliability and PostgreSQL expertise.
- •As a Site Reliability Engineer at Alpaca, you'll help keep our brokerage platform reliable, observable, and operable as we grow.
- •You will focus on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, messaging, and data layers, with a special emphasis on PostgreSQL reliability.
- •Key Responsibilities Operate production day-to-day, including on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
- •Own reliability practice by defining and refining SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
- •Strengthen observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
- •Ship infrastructure through code in a GitOps workflow.
- •Look after PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, migrations, HA/DR, and CDC pipelines.
- •Requirements 4+ years in SRE, DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or backend engineering with production operations ownership.
- •Hands-on experience operating production services on Kubernetes and shipping infrastructure as code in a GitOps workflow.
- •Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL in production.
- •Cloud networking fundamentals and comfort debugging cross-service connectivity.
- •Proficiency with Linux and a modern observability stack.
- •Practiced in incident response.
- •At least working proficiency in Go or Python.
- •Genuine interest in databases and growing PostgreSQL/DBA expertise.
Required skills
PostgreSQLKubernetesLinuxGoPython
Nice-to-have skills
RabbitMQSQL
Domain expertise
fintechcrypto
Benefits & perks
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
Tech stack
PostgreSQLKubernetesLinuxGoPythonAWSRabbitMQ