Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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Senior SRE strengthening PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and observability for Alpaca’s global brokerage infrastructure. Operating production systems, improving reliability, and mentoring engineers across cloud and database operations.
Responsibilities:
- Operate production day-to-day, including on-call, incident response, postmortems, and follow-up actions
- Define and refine SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, helping product teams operate within them
- Strengthen observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
- Ship cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads through code in a GitOps workflow
- Own PostgreSQL reliability through performance tuning, schema and migration review, online migrations on large tables, HA/DR, and CDC pipelines
- Mentor engineers on reliability and database fundamentals through code review, design review, and pairing
Requirements:
- 4+ years 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
- Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL in production, including query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing, schema trade-offs, and safe online migrations
- Cloud networking fundamentals: VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, and TLS
- Comfortable with a modern observability stack
- Proficient with Linux at the operator level
- Practiced in incident response, structured debugging, and postmortems
- At least working proficiency in Go or Python
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Genuine interest in databases and growing PostgreSQL/DBA expertise
- Nice-to-haves include deeper PostgreSQL experience, typed SQL access layers in Go, large-scale messaging systems, security and compliance in regulated environments, and trading, brokerage, or regulated fintech familiarity
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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