Senior DevOps 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. Among our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs.

Our team is a dynamic group of 400+ globally distributed members across the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond. We are backed by $400M+ in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, and Y Combinator.

Role Overview

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the platforms behind software delivery, edge and L7 networking, platform access, and the application-facing parts of our observability stack. Alpaca operates a follow-the-sun model to keep critical systems covered around the clock. This role represents the team's presence in the APAC region, supporting and owning the platform in your timezone.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Engineering Teams: Troubleshoot problems across the stack, advise teams on platform tooling, and participate in the regional support rotation.
• Follow-The-Sun Incident Response: Watch and triage alerts, declare/join incidents, lead structured debugging, and drive blameless post-mortems.
• Manage CI/CD & Delivery Pipelines: Own the path a change takes to production using GitHub Actions, Helm, and Argo CD across multiple clusters and regions.
• Operate High-Traffic Infrastructure: Run API gateway and edge infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of daily requests with high availability and safety.
• Maintain Platform Tooling: Operate core internal tools (Grafana, Sentry, Teleport, Metabase, Atlantis) as production-grade internal services.
• Advance Platform-as-a-Product: Build self-serve capabilities and golden paths for engineering to ship code quickly and safely.
• Drive End-to-End Improvements: Lead platform initiatives from initial problem definition to production operations.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years in a DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or SRE role operating large-scale, high-availability, high-performance systems in production.
• Kubernetes: Deep production experience across multiple Kubernetes clusters (upgrades, debugging, day-to-day operations) and packaging with Helm.
• Infrastructure as Code: Strong Terraform skills with multi-environment codebases, GitOps practices, and least-privilege security design.
• CI/CD & GitOps: Proven track record building CI/CD pipelines at scale (e.g., GitHub Actions) and continuous delivery using Argo CD or similar.
• Cloud Experience: Hands-on production experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ideally GKE.
• Networking: Solid L7 networking fundamentals (load balancing, DNS, TLS, HTTP routing) and ability to debug the full request path.
• Mindset & Collaboration: Platform-as-a-Product mindset, ability to work asynchronously, and willingness to participate in a Follow-The-Sun on-call rotation in APAC or EMEA hours.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with Policy-as-Code (OPA/Conftest, Checkov, tflint) and IaC quality tools.
• Expertise managing Terraform state, module registries, and versioning across multiple teams.
• Experience with secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, OpenBao) and internal PKI/mTLS lifecycle management.
• Experience with developer platform frameworks (Backstage, Tilt).
• Working proficiency in Go for automation and tooling.
• Strong Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) and container fundamentals (Docker/containerd).
• Compliance and security experience in regulated fintech, trading, or brokerage environments (SOC 2).

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Comprehensive Health Benefits
• New Hire Home-Office Setup Allowance ($500 USD)
• Monthly Stipend ($150 USD per month via Brex Card)