Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alpaca is a global provider of brokerage infrastructure and developer-friendly financial APIs. The Senior DevOps Engineer will design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure for globally distributed, trading-critical systems, while advancing Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, observability, platform self-service, Kubernetes operations, and SRE practices.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve our cloud architecture on GCP - networking, interconnects, IAM and high-availability topology - and express it entirely as code with Terraform, following GitOps as a first principle
- Build and own the CI/CD pipelines that plan, review, test and safely apply IaC changes - Policy-as-Code guardrails, drift detection and progressive rollout so infrastructure changes ship as confidently as application code
- Advance Platform-as-a-Product: build self-serve capabilities and paved paths so engineers can provision what they need, through a golden path rather than a hand-off
- Strengthen our observability stack - metrics, logs, traces and alerting across Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Alertmanager - so the platform is easy to run and reason about
- Operate our GKE clusters and the infrastructure services that run on them - Helm-packaged workloads, message brokers (RabbitMQ, IBM MQ) and data stores
- Participate in our Follow-The-Sun on-call model: watch and triage alerts, join and declare incidents, lead structured debugging and escalation, and drive blameless post-mortems and the post-actions that actually close the loop
- Embed SRE practices - SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, capacity planning - into how Core Infrastructure builds and operates, working closely with our SRE function
Skills
- 5+ years in a DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or SRE role, with a proven track record operating large-scale, high-availability, high-performance systems in production
- Deep hands-on experience designing cloud architecture on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the primary cloud - landing zones, networking, IAM and high-availability topology
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform, structuring large codebases across multiple environments, with GitOps as a first principle and least-privilege as a default mindset
- Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines for IaC - automated plan/apply, code review, Policy-as-Code, drift detection and safe rollout
- Significant production experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE) and packaging/deploying workloads with Helm
- Solid cloud and L3/L4-L7 networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS, TLS, interconnects) and comfort debugging cross-service connectivity
- Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack - Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Alertmanager - across metrics, logs, traces and alerting
- Operator-level familiarity with data stores such as PostgreSQL and Message Brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ, RedPanda) - able to run and troubleshoot them in production
- A good understanding of SRE practices - SLOs/error budgets, capacity planning - and a Platform-as-a-Product mindset
- Strong grasp of incident management end to end: joining and declaring incidents, structured debugging under pressure, escalation, clear documentation, and post-mortems that drive real change
- Able and willing to take part in a Follow-The-Sun on-call rotation from APAC hours, and to work effectively in a distributed, async-first team with strong written communication
- Policy-as-code and IaC quality tooling (OPA/Conftest, Checkov, tflint, Atlantis, or similar)
- Experience managing Terraform state, module registries and versioning at scale across many teams
- Experience building self-serve developer platforms and internal golden paths (e.g. with Backstage, Tilt, or similar)
- Experience with the Alloy collector and with incident tooling such as Rootly
- Working proficiency in Go for automation and tooling
- Strong Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) and container (Docker/containerd) fundamentals
- Security and compliance experience in a regulated environment (SOC 2, secrets management, audit logging)
- Familiarity with trading, brokerage, or other regulated fintech domains, and with low-latency systems
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
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