# Operations Reliability Engineer - Automations

**Company:** [Alpaca](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/alpaca)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, TypeScript, React, SQL, Postgres, Observability, Terraform, Argo CD, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Senior Fullstack Engineer embedded in brokerage operations to replace manual processes with durable automations and tooling. Requires 5+ years experience building and operating large-scale systems with deep Golang and TypeScript/React expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, deploy, and monitor production automations and UIs that remove manual steps and reduce operation time.
- Partner with frontend engineers to productize ops tooling so global teams can run functions with predictable staffing.
- Execute operational procedures to surface painful manual processes prior to automation.
- Instrument and report baseline and outcome metrics (MTTC, manual-steps removed, queue sizes, ops satisfaction) and iterate based on measured impact.
- Produce Platform Opportunity Briefs / RFCs for higher-level platform tooling and automations.
- Collaborate with licensed BD leadership, Compliance, and Security to build auditable, safe automations with role-based access and clear runbooks.
- Own the full lifecycle of the systems you build, including automated deployment (CI/CD with tools like ArgoCD and Terraform), proactive monitoring, On-call support rotations and incident response, following a "you build it, you run it" philosophy.
- Build systems with auditability, traceability, and data lineage as a first-class concern to ensure transparency for our auditors and regulators.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating complex, large-scale systems in production.
- Strong business sense and understanding of operations.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in Golang, including a strong command of its concurrency models (goroutines, channels), memory management, and standard library.
- Proven track record of building user-facing features end-to-end with Typescript/React.
- Proficient with SQL and relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
- Demonstrated ability to reason about human workflows as systems, not just software services.
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex requirements into clear technical components and excellent communication skills for working in a cross-functional environment.
- High ownership mindset with bias toward durable, structural fixes over tactical patches.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Knowledge of service oriented architectures.
- Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP).
- Financial market (exchange, broker-dealers, clearing, etc.) knowledge.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- A passion for financial markets or the desire to learn.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Demonstrable experience in designing, building, and reasoning about distributed systems, including a strong understanding of microservices architecture and API design patterns (e.g., REST, gRPC).
- Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking.

## Compensation & 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

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