Site Reliability Engineer

Maintain and improve reliability, observability, and operability of Alpaca's brokerage platform.

• •Alpaca seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to maintain and improve reliability, observability, and operability of its brokerage platform, with a significant focus on PostgreSQL database reliability.
• •Key Responsibilities Operate production day-to-day: on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
• •Define and refine SLIs/SLOs and manage error budgets.
• •Improve observability across metrics, logs, and traces.
• •Ship infrastructure as code in a GitOps workflow for cloud and Kubernetes.
• •Manage PostgreSQL: tuning, online migrations, HA/DR, and CDC.
• •Requirements 4+ years in SRE/DevOps/platform or backend engineering with production operations ownership.
• •Hands-on Kubernetes and GitOps experience; strong Linux proficiency.
• •Solid PostgreSQL production knowledge: query plans, indexing, migrations.
• •Cloud networking fundamentals and observability experience.