Senior DevOps Engineer, Alpaca

• For this role, we are seeking an experienced devops engineer who can perform well in a distributed working environment
• At least 5 years of experience in a DevOps role, or in a similar field
• Strong ability to work independently, lead and deliver on large tasks, and collaborate with other members of the organization or external partners
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL replication, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and production database maintenance
• Significant production experience with Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by maintaining production applications on it
• Strong ability to troubleshoot issues in PostgreSQL, K8s, cloud and finding the root cause

Desirable

• As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will manage, design, and develop our large-scale cloud infrastructure where low latency and reliability are both critical, forming the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets
• The team is responsible for maintaining the cloud infrastructure and supporting infrastructure layer applications such as databases, message brokers, observability tools, etc while working closely with software engineering teams
• In this role, you will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions to achieve defined goals while actively participating in defining those goals in cooperation with the team
• Management of our postgreSQL database clusters - scale, fine-tune, improve stability and observability as we grow
• Manage our Kubernetes clusters, and infrastructure service components that are used by our applications - such as message brokers, monitoring, continuous delivery and others
• Manage our underlying infrastructure in Google Cloud, including external and internal network connectivity
• Take part of the rotation to watch alerts and dispatch other engineering team’s requests