Senior Software Engineer - Platform

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve Redpanda-based event streaming infrastructure
• Develop replacement for aging authentication and authorization services
• Create event-driven solutions to replace batch processing across systems
• Take ownership of tasks from requirements gathering through deployment and monitoring
• Contribute to architectural decisions for scalable and reliable systems
• Collaborate with other teams to improve system interactions
• Maintain software quality and test coverage
• Participate in code reviews and troubleshoot incidents
• Manage deployments and respond to on-call needs

Requirements

• 5+ years experience writing code in strongly-typed languages
• 1+ year experience in Go
• Kubernetes expertise beyond basics with ability to write Helm charts
• Relational database experience (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Startup experience with comfort navigating technical debt and ambiguity
• 3+ years working on systems at scale

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kafka or Redpanda
• Understanding of JWT, OpenID Connect, SAML, or Keycloak
• IaC deployments with Argo CD, Terraform, GCP, or GKE
• Experience with Grafana observability stack (Prometheus, Tempo, PromQL)
• Familiarity with FlatBuffers, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, and RESTful API design

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Health benefits
• One-time $500 new hire home-office setup
• $150 monthly stipend via Brex Card

About the Company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure provider serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries. The company offers institutional-grade APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and 24/5 trading, supporting over 9 million brokerage accounts. With $320 million in total funding, Alpaca's global team of 230+ members is distributed across the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond, working toward the mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet.