Senior DevOps Engineer
Core
Design, build, and operate global cloud infrastructure and trading-critical systems for Alpaca, enabling engineering teams to ship safely and quickly.
Role type
Senior IC DevOps Engineer (Platform/Infrastructure)
Builds
Self-serve developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and high-availability cloud infrastructure on GCP.
Domain
Fintech / Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) architecture, Terraform, GitOps, Kubernetes (GKE), Helm, CI/CD pipeline design, observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki), PostgreSQL, Message Brokers (RabbitMQ), SRE practices, incident management.
Preferred skills
Policy-as-Code (OPA/Conftest), Terraform state management, internal developer platforms (Backstage), Go programming, Linux/Container fundamentals, security/compliance (SOC 2), low-latency systems.
Technologies
GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, GKE, Helm, Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Alertmanager, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, OPA, Conftest, Checkov, Atlantis, Backstage, Tilt, Rootly, Go, Docker, containerd.
Responsibilities
Design and evolve cloud architecture (networking, IAM, HA topology) expressed as code; build and own CI/CD pipelines with Policy-as-Code and drift detection; strengthen observability stack; operate GKE clusters and data stores; participate in on-call rotation and incident management; embed SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, capacity planning).
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC