
Alpaca
Actively Hiring
API-first Stock & Crypto Platform
- Growing fastShowed strong hiring growth in the past month
Production Support Engineer
- Remote (Everywhere) •
- |Full Time
Posted: yesterday• Recruiter recently active
Job Location
Hires remotely in
Everywhere
Visa Sponsorship
Not Available
RelocationNot Allowed
Hiring contact
Mike Flynn
Employee

About the job
Your Role
Serve as the primary technical expert for key enterprise customers in the APAC region, leading the resolution of critical and complex customer issues while driving process improvements to increase the efficiency and scalability of our support organization.
Things You Get To Do:
- Lead Complex L2 Escalations: Proactively engage with enterprise customers to provide hands-on troubleshooting and resolution for critical technical issues
- Drive Root Cause Analysis: Lead investigations into recurring technical issues by collaborating with Support, Product, and Engineering teams to identify underlying problems and champion their resolution.
- Improve Support Process Efficiency: Audit escalation workflows and improve via code, tooling, and training to minimize L3 escalations.
- Develop Technical Documentation: Create and manage internal knowledge bases, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides, contributing to public documentation as needed.
Who You Are (Must-Haves):
- You have 4+ years of experience in technical escalation or support engineering.
- You excel at troubleshooting complex distributed systems and APIs.
- You are proficient with SQL, Kubernetes, and Grafana.
- You drive process improvements and SLA performance
- You possess superior communication skills on complex technical findings for both internal and external audiences.
- You build strong relationships, establishing trust and rapport with technical teams at enterprise-level partners.
- You understand FinTech concepts, API-driven financial platforms, and ITIL concepts
- You will work in an APAC shift region, starting at 5:00 PM EST.
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
- You have experience with GCP, Golang, Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
- You develop internal support automation tools.
- You contribute to public technical documentation.
- You have experience with performance tuning of Postgres databases.
- You have online securities trading experience.
Our Tech & Infrastructure Stack:
- Microservices running on Google Cloud Platform via Kubernetes
- Golang
- Postgres
- RabbitMQ
Additional Requirements:
- Must be eligible to work without sponsorship for this role.
About the company
201-500
Startup
Developer APIs
- Growing fastShowed strong hiring growth in the past month
Perks
Healthcare benefits
Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental healthcare. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.
Equity benefits
Competitive Salary & Stock Options
Remote friendly
Remote-first
Miscellaneous
New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Founders
Hitoshi Harada
CTO • 12 years
San Mateo
Yoshi Yokokawa
CEO • 12 years
Silicon Valley