Senior DevOps Engineer, Alpaca
+ Stock Options
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API for stock and crypto trading
Open for applications
API for stock and crypto trading
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock Options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unlock asset management for the people by modularising the world’s asset management activities.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Familiarity with Git for distributed source control and branching strategies
- Experience building a development environment with Tilt
Desirable
- Always think with IT security in mind
- Good communicator in both sync and async channels, and value good documentation
- Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining software you'll be responsible for
- Strong understanding and comfort with Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) and shell usage
- Deep understanding of Docker/containerd
- Experience building and scaling continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
- Experienced in multi-regional high availability
- Experience with Golang
- Experience with L2/L3 networking
What the job involves
- 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
Our take
Alpaca offers a developer-first API for stock trading. It enables companies to offer short-stock trading both worldwide and competitively commission-free across various programming languages. Within one year of launch Alpaca facilitated over $1 billion in transactions.
This is impressive, but not surprising. Fintech apps that facilitate stock trading on a level previously inaccessible to retail investors are on the rise. Alpaca puts this software within reach of companies who may previously have lacked the ability or the tech to do so. However, competition is growing, both from existing competitors like Interactive Brokers and Robinhood and robustly funded startups like Galileo and DriveWealth.
Alpaca now has the funding, including a round of convertible debt financing, available to scale its offering to larger businesses, and is looking further afield to work with international customers to earn income from foreign exchange fees. Whilst competition is strong in stock-trading APIs, casting their net wide could win Alpaca a head start.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
25% female employees
-24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2023
$15m
CONVERTIBLE
Aug 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $86.9m
Company benefits
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
- Work with awesome people, clients and partners from around the world
Company HQ
Downtown, San Mateo, CA
Articles
Leadership
Hitoshi Harada
(CPO)Former Database Kernel Architect at pivotal Inc and contributor at PostgreSQL Global development Group. Graduated from Keio University.
Yoshi Yokokawa
(CEO)Co-founder of Ikkyo Technology and former Forex Trader. Former Vice-President at Nomura.
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