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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in architecting and leading event-driven systems, particularly with Redpanda and Kafka, while ensuring scalability and reliability in real-time data delivery. Proficient in mentoring teams and driving technical direction across boundaries, with a strong foundation in Kubernetes and relational databases.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Event-Driven ArchitectureRedpanda Event StreamingKubernetes ExpertiseReal-Time Data DeliveryTechnical Mentorship
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAbout the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the end-to-end architecture and two-to-three-year direction of Alpaca’s Redpanda-based event streaming platform, UTS ecosystem, client libraries, and user-facing streaming
- Lead the transition from batch processing to event-driven systems across Alpaca
- Design user-facing streaming at scale, including connection fan-out, slow consumers, backpressure, ordering, delivery guarantees, and failure modes
- Establish standards for event-driven design, including schema evolution, topic ownership, replay, and idempotency
- Own shared libraries, including versioning and deprecation decisions
- Shape AuthN/AuthZ direction and lead identity-related streaming work, including real-time subscription authorization, token lifecycle, and multi-tenant isolation
- Help shape Alpaca’s AI-native development platform through schemas, contracts, and event streams
- Partner with SRE on chaos testing and game days, and with QA on test tooling and pre-production gates
- Lead through influence, mentoring, design reviews, and delegation
- Join the Platform on-call rotation and serve as technical lead during shared-infrastructure incidents
Requirements
What you’ll need- 8+ years of professional engineering experience, including several years running systems at real scale
- Proficiency in Go, or deep experience in another strongly-typed language with willingness to learn Go quickly
- Production expertise architecting Kafka or Redpanda event streaming systems, including partitioning, consumer groups, rebalancing, retention, and delivery guarantees
- Experience delivering realtime data to clients at scale using WebSockets, SSE, or gRPC streaming
- Experience handling fan-out, slow consumers, and backpressure in production
- Experience driving technical direction across team boundaries without formal authority
- Experience writing RFCs and owning technical decisions
- Experience building or maintaining libraries used by multiple teams
- Knowledge of backward compatibility and deprecation
- Experience mentoring senior engineers
- Real depth in at least one adjacent area: identity and access, developer tooling and CI, or testing and resilience
- Kubernetes expertise beyond the basics, including writing Helm charts and understanding security best practices; job experience or certifications to prove it
- Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Previous startup experience and ability to work in ambiguous, changing environments
- Nice-to-have: IDL or binary serialization formats such as Protobuf, Avro, or FlatBuffers
- Nice-to-have: Change data capture, such as Debezium or PeerDB, and PostgreSQL logical replication
- Nice-to-have: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT lifecycle, Keycloak, or Cognito
- Nice-to-have: Agentic or AI-native developer tooling
- Nice-to-have: Chaos engineering, game days, load testing, or fault-injection testing
- Nice-to-have: Infrastructure as code with Argo CD or Terraform
- Nice-to-have: Grafana observability stack, including Prometheus and Tempo
- Nice-to-have: Fintech or regulated-domain experience
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
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Hard Skills
Go ProgrammingKafka ArchitectureWebSockets StreamingGRPC StreamingPartitioning and Consumer GroupsBackpressure HandlingSchema EvolutionVersioning and DeprecationRelational DatabasesIdentity and Access Management
Soft Skills
LeadershipMentoringInfluenceCollaborationTechnical Decision-Making
Tools & Technologies
KubernetesHelm ChartsPostgreSQLChaos EngineeringGrafanaTerraformArgo CDProtobufAvroJWT Lifecycle
Industry Keywords
FintechRegulated DomainStartup ExperienceReal-Time SystemsEvent Streaming