Senior DevOps Engineer - in Columbus
Who We Are:
Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
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 6 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 top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
Our Team Members:
We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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 valuesâStay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountableâand are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Your Role:
Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will oversee the configuration, provisioning, and management of large cloud-hosted systems and microservices; including scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and recovery.
Things You Get To Do:
- Design, maintain and expand our infrastructure defined in code (IaC)
- Oversee systems and resources for alerting, logging, backups, disaster recovery, and monitoring
- Help Alpaca scale by defining the direction of our infrastructure architecture
- Work alongside our engineering in building fault-tolerant & resilient microservices that are in line with our infrastructure's best practices
- Improve the performance and durability of our CI/CD pipelines
- Build out automated tooling to automate the provisioning of on-demand Kubernetes namespaces
- You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
- You have 5+ years of experience in DevOps or a similar role
- You have significant experience with Kubernetes at scale
- You have a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and services
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Published: 2025-12-05 13:00:21
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