Senior Software Engineer - Market Data
Core
Build and scale market data systems and services for Alpaca, including public APIs for stocks, options, crypto, and forex, serving millions of users trading billions of dollars.
Role type
Senior IC backend software engineer (market data)
Builds
Scalable, mission-critical market data services and public APIs
Domain
Financial technology / Market data infrastructure
Required skills
Go, C, C++, Rust, SQL, TCP/IP, UDP, Linux/BSD, shell scripting, Kubernetes, GCP, system architecture, low-latency optimization
Preferred skills
Market data domain knowledge, microservice architecture, clean code principles, cloud networking (BGP, VPC peering), distributed key-value stores, CI/CD, observability, capacity planning
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, GCP, SQL, Linux
Responsibilities
Design highly scalable systems, implement backend services, maintain software quality and test coverage, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot incidents
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
