Staff Software Engineer - Platform

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AlpacaBrokerage infrastructure

Remote- Europe/ AmericasFull-TimeStaff

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Have 8+ years of professional engineering experience, including several years running systems at real scale.
Write Go, or have deep experience in another strongly typed language and be able to pick up Go quickly.
Have architected production event streaming systems using Kafka or Redpanda, with depth in partitioning, consumer groups, rebalancing, retention, and delivery guarantees.
Have delivered real-time data to clients at scale using WebSockets, SSE, or gRPC streaming, and handled fan-out, slow consumers, and backpressure in production.
Have driven technical direction across team boundaries without formal authority.
Have built or maintained libraries used by multiple teams and understand backward compatibility and deprecation.
Have mentored senior engineers.
Have depth in at least one adjacent area: identity and access, developer tooling and CI, or testing and resilience.
Know Kubernetes beyond the basics, including writing Helm charts and understanding security best practices; have job experience or certifications to demonstrate this.
Have worked with relational databases; PostgreSQL experience is used at Alpaca, though equivalent fundamentals are accepted.
Have worked at a startup and be comfortable with ambiguity, changing priorities, and balancing technical debt with speed.

Own the architecture and two-to-three-year direction of the event streaming platform, including Redpanda, the UTS ecosystem, client libraries, and user-facing streaming.
Lead the shift from batch processing to event-driven systems in partnership with the teams that own those systems.
Design scalable user-facing streaming, addressing connection fan-out, slow consumers, backpressure, ordering, delivery guarantees, and failure modes.
Set standards for event-driven design, including schema evolution, topic ownership, replay, and idempotency.
Own shared libraries used by other teams, including versioning and deprecation.
Shape authentication and authorization direction, including authorization for real-time subscriptions, token lifecycle on long-lived connections, and multi-tenant isolation.
Partner with SRE on chaos testing and game days, and with QA on test tooling and pre-production gates.
Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and guide work through influence across teams.
Join the Platform on-call rotation and act as technical lead during shared-infrastructure incidents.

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