# Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Database

**Company:** [Alpaca](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/alpaca)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Postgres, Go, Prometheus, Linux, Pgx, Gorm, Sqlc, Slis, SLOs, Slas
**Posted:** 2026-03-31

> Staff SRE focused on ensuring reliability and performance of multi-terabyte PostgreSQL clusters in a fintech environment. Triages issues, improves observability, manages incidents, and collaborates on scalable designs. Requires 5+ years with PostgreSQL, Go, Prometheus, and Linux.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Triage difficult technical problems and implement solutions
- Improve our observability stack (monitoring, logging, profiling)
- Incident Management: Respond to and resolve incidents in a timely manner, conducting post-incident reviews to identify and implement improvements.
- Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to ensure new features and services are designed with reliability and scalability in mind.
- Capacity Planning: Monitor system capacity and performance, making recommendations and implementing changes to handle future growth.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering, or similar roles.
- 5+ years of experience with multi-terabyte scale **PostgreSQL** clusters.
- Proven track record of managing and maintaining large-scale, high-availability, and high-performance **PostgreSQL** database.
- Experience designing and implementing **SLIs**, **SLOs**, and **SLAs** for internal systems and databases.
- Experience with troubleshooting **PostgreSQL** performance problems and slow queries.
- Extensive experience with efficient schema design and efficient query design.
- Experience migrating multi-terabyte tables into more efficient schemas.
- Proficient with **Go**.
- Proficient with **Prometheus**.
- Proficient with **Linux**.
- Knowledgeable in trading/fintech domains.
- Experience with low-latency systems.
- Experience with distributed tracing.
- Experience scaling **PostgreSQL** clusters rapidly.
- Experience with **pgx**, **gorm**, or **sqlc**.

## 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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