Alpaca is hiring a
Senior Devops Engineer

Summary

The job is for a senior DevOps engineer at Alpaca, a fast-growing fintech company. The role involves designing, developing, and managing large scale cloud-hosted systems. The candidate should have 5+ years of experience in DevOps or a similar role, significant experience with Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, modern distributed logging, monitoring, and metrics systems, and deep understanding of Git for source code version control.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience in DevOps or a similar role
• You have significant experience with Kubernetes in production environments
• You have hands-on experience with Google Cloud platform (GCP) by maintaining production applications on that
• You have a deep understanding of Docker
• You are familiar with modern distributed logging, monitoring, and metrics systems
• You have deep experience building and scaling continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• You have deep familiarity with Git for distributed source code version control
• You have excellent communication skills and value good documentation and writing
• Strong understanding and comfort with POSIX Operating Systems (Linux/BSD, etc)
• Experience with RDBMS, message brokers (Redpanda, Kafka)

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain and expand our infrastructure (maintained as IaaC)
• Oversee systems and resources for alerting, logging, backups, disaster recovery, and monitoring
• Work jointly with other software engineering teams in building fault-tolerant & resilient services that are in line with our infrastructure's best practices
• Improve the performance and durability of our CI/CD pipelines
• Think with IT security in your mind all the time
• You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana and/or Grafana Loki
• You have experience with Prometheus (including Prometheus Alerts) and Grafana
• You are familiar with distributed tracing
• Experience with multi-region high availability
• Experience with Golang
• Strong Postgres scaling and performance tuning experience (including overseeing the management of both self-managed instances and cloud-managed instances)

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card