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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Alpaca · Remote - Americas

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
78 days
Alpaca 's roles stay open a median of 78 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Alpaca 's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Alpaca
high
58 stale, 1 reposted of 60 open
Hiring momentum
100 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-23

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Alpaca 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Alpaca .

About this role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Alpaca, you will ensure the reliability and operability of the brokerage platform, working with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and observability tools. Your role includes operating production services, defining reliability practices, enhancing observability, and managing PostgreSQL performance and migrations. You will also mentor other engineers in reliability and database fundamentals.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
2/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Alpaca as an employer.

What you need

  • 4+ years in SRE, DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or backend engineering with significant production operations ownership
  • Hands-on experience operating production services on Kubernetes
  • Shipping infrastructure as code in a GitOps workflow
  • Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL in production
  • Cloud networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, L4/L7 load balancing, DNS, TLS)
  • Comfortable with a modern observability stack and proficient with Linux at the operator level

Nice to have

  • Deeper PostgreSQL experience: large clusters at OLTP load, online migrations on big tables, HA/DR ownership, connection pooling at scale, or change-data-capture pipelines
  • Experience with typed SQL access layers in Go (e.g. pgx, gorm, sqlc)
  • Production experience with messaging systems at scale (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redpanda)
  • Security & compliance experience in a regulated environment (SOC 2, secrets management, audit logging)
  • Familiarity with trading, brokerage, or other regulated fintech domains

What you get

  • 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

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Focus on PostgreSQL expertise may limit exposure to other technologies
  • Role involves on-call responsibilities which may affect work-life balance

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Listed by Alpaca on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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