Staff Site Reliability Engineer Database, New York

Who We Are Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker‑dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 6 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals, working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet.

Your Role As a Site Reliability Engineer at Alpaca, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services. You will work closely with development, operations, and devops teams to build and maintain robust applications, ensuring they run smoothly and efficiently.

Responsibilities

Triage difficult technical problems and implement solutions

Improve our observability stack (monitoring, logging, profiling)

Respond to and resolve incidents in a timely manner, conducting post‑incident reviews to identify and implement improvements

Work closely with development teams to ensure new features and services are designed with reliability and scalability in mind

Monitor system capacity and performance, making recommendations and implementing changes to handle future growth

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering, or similar roles

5+ years of experience with multi‑terabyte scale PostgreSQL clusters

Proven track record of managing and maintaining large‑scale, high‑availability, and high‑performance PostgreSQL databases

Experience designing and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for internal systems and databases

Experience troubleshooting PostgreSQL performance problems and slow queries

Extensive experience with efficient schema design and efficient query design

Experience migrating multi‑terabyte tables into more efficient schemas

Proficient with Go

Proficient with Prometheus

Proficient with Linux

Knowledgeable in trading/fintech domains

Experience with low‑latency systems

Experience with distributed tracing

Experience scaling PostgreSQL clusters rapidly

Experience with pgx, gorm, or sqlc

Benefits

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.

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