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Alpaca

Site Reliability Engineer

Alpaca

Site Reliability Engineer at Alpaca ensuring reliability of brokerage platform through cloud infrastructure. Focused on PostgreSQL reliability and observability in a global engineering team.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇪🇺 Anywhere in EuropeMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDNSGoKubernetesLinuxPostgresPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Operate production day-to-day - oncall, incident response, postmortems, and the follow-ups that actually close the loop.
  • Own reliability practice - define and refine SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and help product teams live within them.
  • Strengthen our observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
  • Ship infrastructure through code in a GitOps workflow - cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads alike.
  • Look after PostgreSQL: 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

What you’ll need
  • 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 — query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing and schema trade-offs, and what a safe online migration looks like on a non-trivial table.
  • Cloud networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, TLS) and comfort debugging cross-service connectivity.
  • Comfortable with a modern observability stack and proficient with Linux at the operator level.
  • Practiced in incident response - calm under pressure, structured debugging, postmortems that drive change.
  • At least working proficiency in Go or Python, plus strong written and verbal communication.
  • Genuine interest in databases and in growing your PostgreSQL/DBA expertise.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesPostgreSQLGitOpsincident responseperformance tuningschema reviewonline migrationscloud networkingGoPython
Soft Skills
calm under pressurestructured debuggingmentoringcommunication