Site Reliability Engineer

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Alpaca, you'll help keep our brokerage platform reliable, observable, and operable as we grow - working across our cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platform, observability stack, messaging layer, and data layer.

• •Operate production day-to-day - oncall, incident response, postmortems, and the follow-ups that actually close the loop.
• •Own reliability practice - define and refine SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and help product teams live within them.
• •Strengthen our observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
• •Ship infrastructure through code in a GitOps workflow - cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads alike.
• •Look after PostgreSQL: performance tuning, schema and migration review, online migrations on large tables, HA/DR, and CDC pipelines.
• •Mentor engineers on reliability and database fundamentals through code review, design review, and pairing.

• •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.

• •4+ years in SRE, DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or backend engineering with significant production operations ownership.
• •Hands-on experience operating production services on Kubernetes, and shipping infrastructure as code in a GitOps workflow.
• •Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL in production — query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing and schema trade-offs, and what a safe online migration looks like on a non-trivial table.
• •Cloud networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, TLS) and comfort debugging cross-service connectivity.
• •Comfortable with a modern observability stack and proficient with Linux at the operator level.
• •Practiced in incident response - calm under pressure, structured debugging, postmortems that drive change.
• •At least working proficiency in Go or Python, plus strong written and verbal communication.
• •Genuine interest in databases and in growing your PostgreSQL/DBA expertise.