Senior DevOps Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p> <p>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 <a href="https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/">recent Series D funding round</a> brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.</p> <p>Amongst our subsidiaries, 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 9 million brokerage accounts.</p> <p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.</p> <p>Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p> <p>We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!<br><br>We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.</p></div><p><strong>Your Role:</strong></p> <p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">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.</p> <p><strong>Things You Get To Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, maintain and expand our infrastructure defined in code (IaC)</li> <li>Oversee systems and resources for alerting, logging, backups, disaster recovery, and monitoring</li> <li>Help Alpaca scale by defining the direction of our infrastructure architecture</li> <li>Work alongside our engineering in building fault-tolerant resilient microservices that are in line with our infrastructure's best practices</li> <li>Improve the performance and durability of our CI/CD pipelines</li> <li>Build out automated tooling to automate the provisioning of on-demand Kubernetes namespaces</li> <li>You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are (Must-Haves):</strong></p> <ul> <li>You have 5+ years of experience in DevOps or a similar role</li> <li>You have significant experience with Kubernetes at scale</li> <li>You have a deep understanding of modern containerization systems (we use Docker)</li> <li>You are familiar with modern distributed logging, monitoring, and metrics systems</li> <li>You have deep experience building and scaling continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines</li> <li>You have deep familiarity with Git for distributed source code version control</li> <li>You have excellent communication skills and value good documentation and writing</li> <li>Strong understanding and comfort with POSIX Operating Systems (Linux/BSD, etc)</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><strong>Who You Might Be</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><strong>Nice-to-Haves): </strong></p> <ul> <li>You have experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana</li> ... (truncated, view full listing at source)