[Remote] Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Database
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure company. They are seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of their systems and services, working closely with development and operations teams.
Responsibilities
- Triage difficult technical problems and implement solutions
- Improve our observability stack (monitoring, logging, profiling)
- Incident Management: Respond to and resolve incidents in a timely manner, conducting post-incident reviews to identify and implement improvements
- Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to ensure new features and services are designed with reliability and scalability in mind
- Capacity Planning: Monitor system capacity and performance, making recommendations and implementing changes to handle future growth
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering, or similar roles
- 5+ years of experience with multi-terabyte scale PostgreSQL clusters
- Proven track record of managing and maintaining large-scale, high-availability, and high-performance PostgreSQL database
- Experience designing and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for internal systems and databases
- Experience with troubleshooting PostgreSQL performance problems and slow queries
- Extensive experience with efficient schema design and efficient query design
- Experience migrating multi-terabyte tables into more efficient schemas
- Proficient with Go
- Proficient with Prometheus
- Proficient with Linux
- Knowledgeable in trading/fintech domains
- Experience with low-latency systems
- Experience with distributed tracing
- Experience scaling PostgreSQL clusters rapidly
- Experience with pgx, gorm, or sqlc
Benefits
- 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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