Senior Software Engineer, Alpaca

• We are looking for senior or staff+ engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions
• This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX, such as operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices
• At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
• Experience with at least compiled imperative languages (ex: Go, C, C++, Rust, Zig) or functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Scala). Most of our critical services are written in Go
• SQL or relational database skills
• Familiarity with message brokers and message queues
• Proficient with Linux/BSD, shell scripting
• Excited about what we are building at Alpaca
• Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams
• Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems (we primarily use Kubernetes via GKE)
• Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
• A passion for financial markets

Desirable

• As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form Alpaca's foundation and empower millions of users who trade billions of dollars worth of assets
• The platform team is responsible for improving Alpaca's overall internal architecture and overseeing the public API’s structure
• The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and tasked with building, ideating, experimenting, and productionize new services, internal tooling and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly,
• Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s systems
• Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system
• Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts)
• Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matter
• Maintain good software quality and test coverage
• Participate in code reviews
• Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
• You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature