alpaca
Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Database
At a Glance
- Location
- North America (Eastern Hours)
- Work Regime
- remote
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Posted
- 2026-03-31T17:30:49-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
Requirements
5+ years of experience with multi-terabyte scale PostgreSQL clusters.
Proven track record of managing and maintaining large-scale, high-availability, and high-performance PostgreSQL database.
Experience designing and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for internal systems and databases.
Experience with troubleshooting PostgreSQL performance problems and slow queries.
Extensive experience with efficient schema design and efficient query design.
Experience migrating multi-terabyte tables into more efficient schemas.
Responsibilities
As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Alpaca, you will ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services.
You will work closely with development, operations and devops teams to build and maintain robust applications, ensuring they run smoothly and efficiently.
This role requires a blend of software engineering and operations skills, with a strong ability to troubleshoot technical issues and resolve problems before they impact our users.