Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Alpaca, a leading brokerage infrastructure technology company, as a Senior DevOps Engineer. You will manage, design, and develop our large-scale cloud infrastructure, ensuring low latency and high reliability. This critical role involves managing PostgreSQL database clusters, Kubernetes clusters, and Google Cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate with software engineering teams, troubleshoot issues, and participate in on-call rotations. We offer a competitive salary, stock options, and comprehensive benefits starting on day one, including health benefits, a home-office setup stipend, and a monthly stipend.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in a DevOps role, or in a similar field
• Strong ability to work independently, lead and deliver on large tasks, and collaborate with other members of the organization or external partners
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL replication, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and production database maintenance
• Significant production experience with Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by maintaining production applications on it
• Strong ability to troubleshoot issues in PostgreSQL, K8s, cloud and finding the root cause

Responsibilities

• Manage our postgreSQL database clusters - scale, fine-tune, improve stability and observability as we grow
• Manage our Kubernetes clusters, and infrastructure service components that are used by our applications - such as message brokers, monitoring, continuous delivery and others
• Manage our underlying infrastructure in Google Cloud, including external and internal network connectivity
• Take part of the rotation to watch alerts and dispatch other engineering team’s requests

Preferred Qualifications

• Always think with IT security in mind
• Good communicator in both sync and async channels, and value good documentation
• Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining software you'll be responsible for
• Strong understanding and comfort with Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) and shell usage
• Deep understanding of Docker/containerd
• Experience building and scaling continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• Familiarity with Git for distributed source control and branching strategies
• Experienced in multi-regional high availability
• Experience building a development environment with Tilt
• Experience with Golang
• Experience with L2/L3 networking

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. In Japan, you are offered local benefits. 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
• Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world