Production Support Engineer - Alpaca

About Alpaca

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

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

Serve as the primary technical expert for key enterprise customers in the APAC region, leading the resolution of critical and complex customer issues while driving process improvements to increase the efficiency and scalability of our support organization.

What You'll Do

• Lead Complex L2 Escalations: Proactively engage with enterprise customers to provide hands-on troubleshooting and resolution for critical technical issues.
• Drive Root Cause Analysis: Lead investigations into recurring technical issues by collaborating with Support, Product, and Engineering teams to identify underlying problems and champion their resolution.
• Improve Support Process Efficiency: Audit escalation workflows and improve via code, tooling, and training to minimize L3 escalations.
• Develop Technical Documentation: Create and manage internal knowledge bases, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides, contributing to public documentation as needed.

Who You Are (Must-Haves)

• 4+ years of experience in technical escalation or support engineering.
• Excellent at troubleshooting complex distributed systems and APIs.
• Proficient with SQL, Kubernetes, and Grafana.
• Ability to drive process improvements and SLA performance.
• Superior communication skills on complex technical findings for both internal and external audiences.
• Strong relationship-building skills, establishing trust and rapport with technical teams at enterprise-level partners.
• Understanding of FinTech concepts, API-driven financial platforms, and ITIL concepts.
• Ability to work in an APAC shift region, starting at 5:00 PM EST.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with GCP, Golang, Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
• Experience developing internal support automation tools.
• Experience contributing to public technical documentation.
• Experience with performance tuning of Postgres databases.
• Online securities trading experience.

Our Tech & Infrastructure Stack

• Microservices running on Google Cloud Platform via Kubernetes
• Golang
• Postgres
• RabbitMQ

Additional Requirements

• Must be eligible to work without sponsorship for this role.

Benefits & 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