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AlpacaAlpacaUnited States

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.

Salary not listed
Remote4+ YOEBackend Engineering

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

Skills

GoKubernetesGCPSQLLinuxTCP/IPUdpRustC++Ebpf
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