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AlpacaAlpacaUnited States

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Operates and improves reliability for a trading-critical brokerage platform across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, messaging, and PostgreSQL. Requires 4+ years of production operations experience, strong PostgreSQL fundamentals, incident response expertise, and proficiency in Go or Python.

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Remote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Operate production systems day to day, including on-call, incident response, postmortems, and follow-up actions.
  • Define and refine SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, and help product teams operate within them.
  • Strengthen observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
  • Ship cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes workloads as code through a GitOps workflow.
  • Improve PostgreSQL reliability through performance tuning, schema and migration reviews, online migrations on large tables, high availability and disaster recovery, and CDC pipelines.
  • Mentor engineers on reliability and database fundamentals through code reviews, design reviews, and pairing.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform/infrastructure, or backend engineering with significant production operations ownership.
  • Hands-on experience operating production services on Kubernetes and shipping infrastructure as code in a GitOps workflow.
  • Production PostgreSQL experience, including query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing, schema trade-offs, and safe online migrations on non-trivial tables.
  • Cloud networking fundamentals, including VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, and TLS.
  • Experience debugging cross-service connectivity.
  • Comfort with modern observability stacks and proficiency with Linux at the operator level.
  • Incident response experience, including structured debugging and postmortems that drive change.
  • Working proficiency in Go or Python.
  • Strong written and verbal communication.
  • Genuine interest in databases and growing PostgreSQL/DBA expertise.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Deeper PostgreSQL experience with large OLTP clusters, online migrations on large tables, HA/DR ownership, connection pooling at scale, or change-data-capture pipelines.
  • Experience with typed SQL access layers in Go, such as pgx, GORM, or sqlc.
  • Production experience with messaging systems at scale, such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Redpanda.
  • Security and compliance experience in a regulated environment, including SOC 2, secrets management, or audit logging.
  • Familiarity with trading, brokerage, or regulated fintech domains.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options.
  • Health benefits.
  • One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup allowance.
  • USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.

Skills

KubernetesGitOpsPostgresGoPythonLinuxObservabilityvpcDNStlsRabbitMQKafkaredpandaTerraform

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