Senior Software Engineer - Market Data
Core
Design and scale mission-critical market data systems for stocks, options, crypto, and FX, ensuring nanosecond-level latency for millions of users.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (Systems/Infrastructure)
Builds
High-performance market data APIs and backend services for Alpaca's brokerage infrastructure
Domain
Financial Technology / Market Data Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, C/C++/Rust, Linux/BSD, TCP/IP, UDP, Kubernetes, GCP, SQL, shell scripting
Preferred skills
Microservices, low-latency application development, distributed key-value stores, CI/CD, observability, capacity planning
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, GCP, SQL
Responsibilities
Influence overall architecture of market data systems, design highly scalable systems, optimize for latency, implement backend services, maintain code quality and test coverage, troubleshoot incidents
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC