# Senior Software Engineer - Market Data

**Company:** [Alpaca](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/alpaca)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, GCP, SQL, Linux, TCP/IP, Udp, Rust, C++, Ebpf
**Posted:** 2026-05-08

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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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