Who you are

• 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 modern containerization systems (we use Docker)
• You are familiar with modern distributed logging, monitoring, and metrics systems
• You have deep experience building and scaling continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• You have deep familiarity with Git for distributed source code version control
• You have excellent communication skills and value good documentation and writing
• Strong understanding and comfort with POSIX Operating Systems (Linux/BSD, etc)
• You have experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana
• You have experience with Prometheus (including Prometheus Alerts) and Grafana
• You are familiar with distributed tracing
• Experience with multi-region high availability
• Experience with Golang
• Strong Postgres scaling and performance tuning experience (including overseeing the management of both self-managed instances and cloud-managed instances)
• You are familiar with security engineering best practices or have experience with SOC 2
• FinTech experience

What the job involves

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs
• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
• Work with awesome people, clients and partners from around the world