Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Alpaca

Senior SRE strengthening PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and observability for Alpaca’s global brokerage infrastructure. Operating production systems, improving reliability, and mentoring engineers across cloud and database operations.

Posted 8/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🏈 Anywhere in North AmericaSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps practices, with a strong focus on PostgreSQL reliability, Kubernetes operations, and incident response. Proficient in shipping infrastructure as code using GitOps workflows and enhancing observability across production services.

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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Kubernetes OperationsPostgreSQL ReliabilityGitOps WorkflowIncident Response

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Hard Skills

PostgreSQLKubernetesGitOpsGoPythonLinuxCloud NetworkingObservabilityPerformance TuningSchema Review

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

Cloud ResourcesVPCsLoad BalancingDNSTLS

Industry Keywords

Production OperationsIncident ResponseStructured DebuggingPostmortemsRegulated Environments

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDNSGoKubernetesLinuxPostgresPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Operate production day-to-day, including on-call, incident response, postmortems, and follow-up actions
Define and refine SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, helping product teams operate within them
Strengthen observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
Ship cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads through code in a GitOps workflow
Own PostgreSQL reliability through 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, including query plans, pg_stat_*, indexing, schema trade-offs, and safe online migrations
Cloud networking fundamentals: VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, and TLS
Comfortable with a modern observability stack
Proficient with Linux at the operator level
Practiced in incident response, structured debugging, and postmortems
At least working proficiency in Go or Python
Strong written and verbal communication
Genuine interest in databases and growing PostgreSQL/DBA expertise
Nice-to-haves include deeper PostgreSQL experience, typed SQL access layers in Go, large-scale messaging systems, security and compliance in regulated environments, and trading, brokerage, or regulated fintech familiarity

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