Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team

Your Role:As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users that are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.The platform team is responsible for improving the overall internal architecture of Alpaca and overseeing the public API’s structure. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer first API and tasked with building, ideating, experimenting, and productionize new services, internal tooling and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly,We are looking for senior or staff+ engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, proven experience building and architecting at scale, and not afraid of challenging conventions. A deep understanding of POSIX like operating systems, modern infrastructure and orchestration practices are also required for this demanding team.

Things You Get To Do:Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s systemsDesign a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system.Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts)Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience mattersMaintain good software quality and test coverageParticipate in code reviewsTroubleshooting on incidents and reported bugsYou may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in natureWho You Are (Must-Haves):At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scaleExperience with at least compiled imperative languages (ex: Go, C, C++, Rust, Zig) or functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Scala). Most of our critical services are written in GoSQL or relational database skillsFamiliarity with message brokers and message queuesProficient with Linux/BSD, shell scripting.Excited about what we are building at AlpacaProven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teamsExperience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems (we primarily use Kubernetes via GKE)Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)A passion for financial marketsWho You Might Be

( Nice-to-Haves):Knowledge of microservice architecturesKnowledge of clean code principlesDevOps mindset is an assetNetworking experience (BGP, VPC peering, TCP/UDP)Experience with distributed Key Value storesExperience with CI/CDA passion for financial markets or the desire to learnKnowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologiesExperience with observability, tracing, continuous profilingExperience with capacity planning and benchmarkingKnowledge of eBPF

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