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About the role
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
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