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Senior DevOps Engineer

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech startup that's raised over $70 million in funding.

Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services.

Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Tribe Capital, Horizon Ventures, Spark Capital, Social Leverage, Elefund, Portag3, and Y Combinator.

And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open source contributions as well as community building.

The Alpaca Herd (Our Team):

We have 200+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to have work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Nigeria, Brazil, United Kingdom, and more! We love candidates who have passion to make a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities, and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company.

About the Role

Reporting to the DevOps Lead, you will oversee the configuration, provisioning, and management of large cloud-hosted systems and microservices; including scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and recovery.

Things You Get To Do:

Design, maintain and expand our infrastructure defined in code (IaC)
Oversee systems and resources for alerting, logging, backups, disaster recovery, and monitoring
Help Alpaca scale by defining the direction of our infrastructure architecture
Work alongside our engineering in building fault-tolerant & resilient microservices that are in line with our infrastructure's best practices
Improve the performance and durability of our CI/CD pipelines
Build out automated tooling to automate the provisioning of on-demand Kubernetes namespaces
You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

You have 5+ years of experience in DevOps or a similar role
You have significant experience with Kubernetes at scale
You have a deep understanding of modern containerization systems (we use Docker)
You are familiar with modern distributed logging, monitoring, and metrics systems
You have deep experience building and scaling continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
You have deep familiarity with Git for distributed source code version control
You have excellent communication skills and value good documentation and writing
Strong understanding and comfort with POSIX Operating Systems (Linux/BSD, etc)

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

You have experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana
You have experience with Prometheus (including Prometheus Alerts) and Grafana

You are familiar with distributed tracing
Experience with multi-region high availability
Experience with Golang
Strong Postgres scaling and performance tuning experience (including overseeing the management of both self-managed instances and cloud-managed instances)
You are familiar with security engineering best practices or have experience with SOC 2
FinTech experience

Our Tech & Infrastructure Stack:

Microservices running on Google Cloud Platform via Kubernetes
Colocated systems in close proximity to financial hubs with cross-connects to data partners and market execution venues
Golang
Postgres
RabbitMQ

How We Take Care of You:

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

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

Alpaca Glassdoor Company Review

3.6