DevOps Engineer

Your Role: Reporting to the VP of Engineering, 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

Must be eligible to work without sponsorship for this role.

How We Take Care of You:

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options

• Health Benefits

• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500

• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

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