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Staff Software Engineer - Platform
alpaca · Remote- Europe/ Americas · Posted 16 days ago
Own the two-to-three-year architecture of Alpaca's Redpanda-based event backbone and set the standards other teams build against.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will own the technical direction of Alpaca's streaming platform - our Redpanda-based event backbone and the user-facing streaming infrastructure. Platform also owns Authentication, Developer Experience and QA, and AI-Native Engineering. Streaming is roughly two-thirds of the job and where we expect you to become the deepest engineer in the company; across the other three you review the designs, hold an informed opinion, and lead the work where they meet streaming.
This is a Staff role, so we are hiring for direction as much as delivery - the engineer who decides what the streaming platform looks like in two years, writes the RFC that gets three teams to agree, and then builds the hard part. We own client-facing and internal services, maintain shared libraries nearly every team depends on, and manage our own deployments. Most of our time goes into Go, but we also write Helm charts, dig through logs and metrics, and get pulled into a wide variety of problems.
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