Alpaca
51-200 employees
About Alpaca
Alpaca is a technology company that provides a commission-free API for stock trading, enabling developers and businesses to build and automate their own trading algorithms and applications. Founded in 2015, Alpaca's mission is to democratize access to financial markets by offering easy-to-use, programmable trading infrastructure. The company serves a global customer base including individual developers, fintech startups, and institutional investors, positioning itself as a leader in the API-first brokerage space. Alpaca's platform supports real-time market data, order execution, and portfolio management, empowering users to innovate in the financial services industry.
4 days ago
Senior Data Engineer
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Description
- As a Senior Data Engineer at Alpaca you will design, build, and evolve the core data platform infrastructure including distributed query engines, orchestration, warehousing, cataloging, and lakehouse infrastructure as code.
- You will own deployments through Terraform and Ansible on Kubernetes, build and maintain low-latency streaming and CDC ingestion pipelines as well as batch ingestion landing in Iceberg, and develop and scale the BI landscape to provide performant self-serve access to lakehouse data.
- The role enforces platform reliability best practices (monitoring, alerting, on-call, incident response, runbooks, SLAs) and partners with DevOps, Analytics Engineering, and other stakeholders to close infrastructure gaps and support new data requirements.
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Benefits
- 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
- Remote-first / distributed team (100% remote)