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Technical Operations Engineer

Alpaca LogoAlpaca


Date Posted

24 Jun, 2022

Salary Offered

Not Specified

Job Type

Full Time

Experience Required

3+ years

Remote Work

Yes

Stock Options

No

Vacancies

1 available


About Us

Alpaca is a hyper growth financial technology company that is democratizing global access to financial markets starting with our API-first stock brokerage. In just two years, billions of dollars of securities are traded every month via our API and rapidly increasing.

About the Role

Reporting into the VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for daily administration of internal systems and technical requests from our brokerage team.

What You'll Do

  • Answer both internal end external technical support tickets
  • Monitor and maintain our logging, backups, and disaster recovery processes.
  • Perform adhoc database updates.
  • Create shell scripts or develop small tools for automation of common tasks
  • Work alongside our engineering in ensuring the health of our platform
  • Create backups of databases and file assets

About You

  • You have 5+ years of experience in DevOps, sysadmin, or database administration

  • You have significant experience with Postgres, including replication and recovery

  • You have experience with Kubernetes

  • You have a deep understanding of modern containerization systems (we use Docker)

  • You are familiar with modern distributed logging, monitoring, and metrics systems

  • You are familiar with Git for distributed source code version control

  • You have significant experience with POSIX Operating Systems (Linux/BSD, etc)

  • You have excellent communication skills and value good documentation and writing

  • You are familiar with shell scripting

  • You are comfortable in at least one programming language

  • You have worked with either GCP or AWS

Bonus Points:

  • You have experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana

  • You have experience with Prometheus (including Prometheus Alerts) and Grafana

  • You have experience with RabbitMQ or Kafka

  • You are familiar with distributed tracing

  • Experience with Golang

  • Strong Postgres scaling and performance tuning experience (including overseeing the management of both self managed instances and cloud managed instances)

  • You are familiar with information security best practices

Our Tech & Infrastructure Stack:

  • Microservices running on Google Cloud Platform via Kubernetes

  • Golang

  • Postgres

  • RabbitMQ

About Alpaca

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API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform

Company Size: 51 - 250 People
Year Founded: 2015
Country: United States

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