Senior Software Engineer - Market Data
Builds and scales market data systems for low-latency trading APIs covering stocks, options, crypto, and FX. Requires 4+ years experience with Go, Kubernetes, GCP, networking, and Linux for high-scale backend services.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems
- Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts)
- Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matters
- Maintain good software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
- Participate in on-call rotations for timely engineering projects
Requirements (Must-Haves)
- At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
- Experience with compiled imperative languages (e.g. Go, C, C++, Rust)
- SQL or relational database skills
- Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP networking
- Proficient with Linux/BSD and shell scripting
- Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams
- Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration (primarily Kubernetes via GKE)
- Experience with major cloud platforms (primarily GCP)
Nice-to-Haves
- Knowledge of microservice architectures
- Knowledge of clean code principles
- DevOps mindset
- Cloud Networking experience (BGP, VPC peering)
- Experience building low-latency applications
- Experience with distributed key-value stores
- Experience with CI/CD
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling
- Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking
- Knowledge of eBPF
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
Skills
Go, Kubernetes, GCP, SQL, Linux, TCP/IP, Udp, Rust, C++, Ebpf
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