Staff Software Engineer - Platform

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of our event streaming platform end to end - Redpanda, the UTS ecosystem, client libraries and user-facing streaming - and set its two-to-three-year direction
• Lead the shift from batch to event-driven across Alpaca's systems, working with the teams who own them rather than around them
• Design user-facing streaming at scale: connection fan-out, slow consumers, backpressure, ordering and delivery guarantees, and the failure modes that only show up on a volatile market day
• Set the standards for event-driven design - schema evolution, topic ownership, replay, idempotency - and own the shared libraries other teams build against, including the cost of versioning and deprecation
• Partner with SRE on chaos testing and game days for the event backbone, and with our QA stream on test tooling and pre-production gates, so resilience is verified rather than assumed
• Lead through influence rather than authority, and multiply the engineers around you through mentoring, design review, and handing off the work that grows people

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