Alpaca

Design and maintain scalable market data services and APIs for a financial brokerage platform. | Senior backend software development experience with knowledge of containerization, DevOps, and scalable system architecture. | Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply. Your Role: As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets. The market data team is responsible for improving the overall architecture of Alpaca connected to data products such as stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets. Oversee their public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and is tasked with planning, ideating, experimenting, and putting into production the new services, and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly. We are looking for senior or staff engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions. This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices. Things You Get To Do: • Design highly scalable, mission-critical market data provider services • Maintain good software quality and test coverage • Participate in code reviews • Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs Who You Are (Must-Haves): • BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field • Minimum 3 years of experience of backend software development • Hands-on experience with Docker or Kubernetes • DevOps mindset • Excited about what we are building at Alpaca • Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves): • Experience working with large datasets • Experience with Kubernetes (CKA or CKAD certification is a plus) • Experience with SQL • Experience with IP networking • Good understanding of the financial market • Experience with any of the major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) • Hands-on knowledge with shell scripting, Linux & Docker • Knowledge of microservice architectures • Knowledge of clean code principles Our Tech & Infrastructure Stack: • GoLang (primary), Python • REST, gRPC, Websockets, SSE • Docker, Kubernetes • Google Cloud Services (Google Kubernetes Engine, BigTable) • Prometheus, Grafana, ELK How We Take Care of You: • 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 Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Recruitment Privacy Policy

Design and evolve data platform infrastructure and build reliable streaming and batch ingestion pipelines. | 5+ years data engineering experience with Kubernetes, IaC tools, open-source query engines, and GCP proficiency required. | Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply. Your Role: We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help design and build the next generation of our Data Platform as we continue to scale to larger customers and new jurisdictions. At Alpaca, Data Engineering encompasses financial transactions, customer data, API logs, system metrics, augmented data, and third-party systems that impact decision making for both internal and external stakeholders. We process hundreds of millions of events daily, and this number continues to grow as we onboard new customers and products. We prioritize open-source technologies in our data stack while leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the foundation for our data infrastructure. This spans batch and stream ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers for BI/Reporting, AI/agent interfaces (MCP), and external third-party sinks. We also oversee data experimentation, cataloging, and monitoring/alerting systems. Our team is 100% distributed and remote. Responsibilities: Design, build, and evolve the core data platform infrastructure e.g., distributed query engines, orchestration, warehousing, cataloging, and more. Own our lakehouse infrastructure as code, managing deployments through Terraform and Ansible on Kubernetes. Build and maintain low-latency streaming and CDC ingestion pipelines, as well as batch ingestion paths landing in Iceberg. Develop and scale our BI landscape so downstream teams and agents get performant, self-serve access to lakehouse data. Enforce platform reliability best practices, including monitoring and alerting, on-call rotations, incident response, maintenance windows, runbooks, and SLAs. Partner with DevOps, Analytics Engineering, and other stakeholders to close infrastructure gaps and support new data requirements. Must-Haves: 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, including 2+ years building and operating scalable, low-latency data platforms handling > 100M events/day. Strong hands-on experience running data infrastructure on Kubernetes, with cloud-native tooling like Docker and Helm. Production experience with IaC: Terraform, Ansible, and ArgoCD (or equivalents). Deep knowledge of distributed systems (storage, transactions, and query processing) with hands-on experience operating open-source query engines like Trino or Presto. Strong experience with object storage and open table formats, specifically Apache Iceberg. Experience with streaming and CDC systems: Kafka, Redpanda, and Debezium. Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks (Airflow) and ELT tools (Airbyte). Strong working knowledge of Python and SQL for building pipelines and platform tooling. Experience with Google Cloud Platform and its data services (GCS, Cloud Build, Cloud SQL, Dataproc, etc); or related experience with other cloud services. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and adapt infrastructure to rapidly changing needs. Nice to Haves: Experience with semantic/metrics layers (Cube, dbt, Looker). Familiarity with transformation frameworks (dbt). Familiarity with reverse ETL tooling (Hightouch) Familiarity with data catalog and lineage tooling (OpenMetadata, Datahub) Experience with data access control and governance frameworks (Apache Ranger) How We Take Care of You: 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 Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. Recruitment Privacy Policy