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# Software Engineer - Market Data

- **Company:** ALPACA
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, BigTable, Code Coverage, Software Quality, Code Review, Linux, DevOps, Internet Protocol, Python (Programming Language), Posix, Scrum Methodology, Prometheus, Standard Sql, Shell Script, WebSocket, Google Cloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Restful APIs, Grpc, Docker, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pelg34kar3

## About the Role

* BSc/MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
 * Minimum 3 years of experience of backend software development
 * Hands-on experience with Docker or Kubernetes
 * DevOps mindset
 * Excited about what we are building at Alpaca
 * Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

 * Experience working with large datasets
 * Experience with Kubernetes (CKA or CKAD certification is a plus)
 * Experience with SQL
 * Experience with IP networking
 * Good understanding of the financial market
 * Experience with any of the major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
 * Hands-on knowledge with shell scripting, Linux & Docker
 * Knowledge of microservice architectures
 * Knowledge of clean code principles

Our Tech & Infrastructure Stack:

 * GoLang (primary), Python
 * REST, gRPC, Websockets, SSE
 * Docker, Kubernetes
 * Google Cloud Services (Google Kubernetes Engine, BigTable)
 * Prometheus, Grafana, ELK

## Description

As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.

The market data team is responsible for improving the overall architecture of Alpaca connected to data products such as stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets. Oversee their public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and is tasked with planning, ideating, experimenting, and putting into production the new services, and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly.

We are looking for senior or staff engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions. This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.

Things You Get To Do:

 * Design highly scalable, mission-critical market data provider services
 * Maintain good software quality and test coverage
 * Participate in code reviews
 * Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs


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