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Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Streaming

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure provider powering institutional-grade APIs across stocks, crypto, options, and more. We are hiring a Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on streaming and message-broker reliability to ensure the scalability, performance, and availability of our distributed systems and streaming infrastructure.

Skills

  • 5+ years SRE or equivalent experience
  • Deep experience with message brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka-like systems, Redpanda)
  • Strong production Kubernetes experience
  • Proficiency in Go for tooling and automation
  • Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and building monitoring/alerting (Prometheus)
  • Solid Linux internals and performance troubleshooting skills
  • Experience diagnosing message broker performance issues

Responsibilities

  • Triage complex technical incidents and implement robust, long-term solutions
  • Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, alerts, and monitoring for RabbitMQ and Redpanda
  • Improve reliability and client implementations for message brokers
  • Respond to and remediate incidents, conduct post-incident reviews and follow-up actions
  • Collaborate with development teams to design services for reliability and scalability
  • Perform capacity planning and performance tuning to support growth

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options
  • Health benefits
  • One-time new hire home-office setup stipend (USD $500)
  • Monthly remote work stipend (USD $150) via Brex Card
  • Distributed, globally diverse team and remote-friendly culture
  • Equal opportunity employer
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November 22, 2025
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