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Production Support Engineer

US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer providing brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income trading through institutional-grade APIs.
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
101 - 500 Employees
7+ years of experience
Finance

Job Description

Alpaca, a leading fintech company with over $170M in funding, is seeking a Production Support Engineer to join their global team of 230+ members. This role is crucial in evolving Alpaca's customer-facing technical support, ensuring scalability and efficiency in service delivery. The position involves hands-on troubleshooting of critical technical issues, improving support processes, and collaborating across teams for root cause analysis. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with distributed systems, APIs, and various technical tools including Kubernetes, GCP, and SQL. This role offers an opportunity to work with a company that serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries, handling over 6 million brokerage accounts. The position comes with competitive compensation, including stock options, health benefits, and monthly stipends for remote work. As part of a diverse, globally distributed team, you'll contribute to Alpaca's mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet while working with cutting-edge financial technology infrastructure.

Last updated 19 days ago

Responsibilities For Production Support Engineer

  • Provide hands-on troubleshooting and resolution for critical technical issues
  • Audit escalation workflows and improve via code, tooling, and training
  • Collaborate with Support, Product, and Engineering for root cause analysis
  • Create and manage internal knowledge bases, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides
  • Lead implementation of technical support strategy

Requirements For Production Support Engineer

Go
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
Kafka
RabbitMQ
  • 7+ years of experience in technical escalation or support engineering
  • Experience in troubleshooting complex distributed systems and APIs
  • Proficiency with SQL, Kubernetes, and GCP
  • Clear technical communication and meticulous documentation skills
  • Understanding of FinTech concepts and API-driven financial platforms
  • Experience with Golang, Kafka, or RabbitMQ
  • Experience with performance tuning of Postgres databases

Benefits For Production Support Engineer

Medical Insurance
Equity
  • 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

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