Senior Software Engineer - Market Data
Core
Design and scale mission-critical market data systems for Alpaca's institutional-grade APIs serving stocks, options, crypto, and forex.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (market data infrastructure)
Builds
High-throughput streaming and historical data endpoints, public APIs, and low-latency services for financial institutions.
Domain
Financial technology / Market data infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, C/C++/Rust, Linux/BSD, TCP/IP, Kubernetes, GCP, SQL, system architecture, incident response
Preferred skills
Market data domain knowledge, microservices, clean code, DevOps, cloud networking (BGP/VPC), low-latency optimization, distributed key-value stores, CI/CD, observability
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, GCP, SQL, Linux, TCP/IP, UDP
Responsibilities
Influence overall system architecture, design scalable mission-critical services, optimize for nanosecond-level latency, implement backend services, maintain code quality and test coverage, troubleshoot incidents, participate in code reviews
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
