# Alpaca

- **Answer**: Alpaca builds mostly with Go, SQL, Python, C++. Its stack also includes Kubernetes, GCP, PostgreSQL, React.js. Go is named in 52 of the 97 job postings Alpaca published in the last 12 months (54%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Alpaca, updated Nov 11, 2026.
- **Window days**: 365
- **Postings analysed**: 97
- **Open postings**: 50
- **Technologies in use**: 121
- **Modernity score**: 82
- **Ai adoption**: yes
- **License**: CC BY-SA 4.0

## Company

- **Id**: 3826
- **Name**: Alpaca
- **Domain**: alpaca.markets
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/alpaca>

## Technologies

- **Go** — Layer: languages; Postings: 52; Share: 0.5361; Required: 48; Open postings: 26; First seen: 2024-12-02
- **Kubernetes** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 49; Share: 0.5052; Required: 34; Open postings: 25; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **GCP** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 42; Share: 0.433; Required: 19; Open postings: 21; First seen: 2024-12-02
- **SQL** — Layer: languages; Postings: 33; Share: 0.3402; Required: 24; Open postings: 13; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **Spark** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 31; Share: 0.3196; Required: 31; Open postings: 16; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **Python** — Layer: languages; Postings: 31; Share: 0.3196; Required: 24; Open postings: 16; First seen: 2025-08-07
- **PostgreSQL** — Layer: data; Postings: 28; Share: 0.2887; Required: 26; Open postings: 12; First seen: 2024-12-02
- **Rest API** — Layer: tools; Postings: 26; Share: 0.268; Required: 22; Open postings: 14; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **gRPC** — Layer: tools; Postings: 23; Share: 0.2371; Required: 13; Open postings: 9; First seen: 2024-12-02
- **Docker** — Layer: tools; Postings: 21; Share: 0.2165; Required: 7; Open postings: 8; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **AWS** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 18; Share: 0.1856; Required: 9; Open postings: 10; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **Grafana** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 18; Share: 0.1856; Required: 9; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **Redpanda** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 18; Share: 0.1856; Required: 7; Open postings: 8; First seen: 2024-12-02
- **Terraform** — Layer: tools; Postings: 17; Share: 0.1753; Required: 12; Open postings: 7; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **Apache Kafka** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 17; Share: 0.1753; Required: 5; Open postings: 8; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **C++** — Layer: languages; Postings: 15; Share: 0.1546; Required: 15; Open postings: 8; First seen: 2025-08-21
- **WebSockets** — Layer: tools; Postings: 15; Share: 0.1546; Required: 12; Open postings: 8; First seen: 2026-05-29
- **CI/CD** — Layer: practices; Postings: 15; Share: 0.1546; Required: 11; Open postings: 7; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **Linux** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 15; Share: 0.1546; Required: 9; Open postings: 7; First seen: 2025-08-21
- **TypeScript** — Layer: languages; Postings: 14; Share: 0.1443; Required: 12; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **Rust** — Layer: languages; Postings: 13; Share: 0.134; Required: 13; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2025-08-21
- **Helm** — Layer: tools; Postings: 13; Share: 0.134; Required: 11; Open postings: 5; First seen: 2025-08-07
- **Java** — Layer: languages; Postings: 12; Share: 0.1237; Required: 12; Open postings: 5; First seen: 2026-05-15
- **Google GKE** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 12; Share: 0.1237; Required: 6; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2025-08-21
- **Azure** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 11; Share: 0.1134; Required: 2; Open postings: 7; First seen: 2026-04-14
- **GitOps** — Layer: practices; Postings: 10; Share: 0.1031; Required: 8; Open postings: 5; First seen: 2026-04-14
- **LLM** — Layer: ai; Postings: 10; Share: 0.1031; Required: 8; Open postings: 7; First seen: 2026-03-21
- **ArgoCD** — Layer: tools; Postings: 10; Share: 0.1031; Required: 6; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2025-12-09
- **AI Agents** — Layer: practices; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0928; Required: 6; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-05-12
- **JavaScript** — Layer: languages; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0928; Required: 3; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **Prometheus** — Layer: tools; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0928; Required: 2; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **Cursor** — Layer: tools; Postings: 9; Share: 0.0928; Required: 1; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-05-12
- **React.js** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 8; Share: 0.0825; Required: 8; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **Scala** — Layer: languages; Postings: 8; Share: 0.0825; Required: 8; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-05-15
- **Metabase** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 8; Share: 0.0825; Required: 4; Open postings: 5; First seen: 2026-07-01
- **RabbitMQ** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 8; Share: 0.0825; Required: 3; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-05-21
- **DNS** — Layer: practices; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0722; Required: 7; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-05-21
- **Postman** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0722; Required: 7; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-07-01
- **Model Context Protocol** — Layer: tools; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0722; Required: 3; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-03-21
- **Claude** — Layer: ai; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0722; Required: 2; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-05-12
- **Trino** — Layer: data; Postings: 6; Share: 0.0619; Required: 5; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2025-08-07
- **ChatGPT** — Layer: ai; Postings: 6; Share: 0.0619; Required: 1; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-05-12
- **C#** — Layer: languages; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0515; Required: 5; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2025-07-10
- **Heroku** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0515; Required: 5; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-06-17
- **Apache Iceberg** — Layer: data; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0515; Required: 4; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2025-08-07
- **Presto** — Layer: data; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0515; Required: 4; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-03-21
- **dbt** — Layer: tools; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0515; Required: 4; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2025-08-07
- **Kotlin** — Layer: languages; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0412; Required: 4; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-05-15
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Layer: practices; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0412; Required: 4; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-03-21
- **Airflow** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0412; Required: 3; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2025-08-07
- … 71 more in the JSON form

## Changes

### First appeared

- **NIST AI RMF** — First seen: 2026-11-03
- **Windows** — First seen: 2026-11-02
- **LLM Guardrails** — First seen: 2026-10-28
- **Bash** — First seen: 2026-09-14
- **API Gateway** — First seen: 2026-09-14
- **ClickHouse** — First seen: 2026-09-09
- **OpenAI Codex** — First seen: 2026-08-25
- **Google Bigtable** — First seen: 2026-08-18

### Rising

- **Grafana** — Share from: 8; Share to: 23
- **WebSockets** — Share from: 8; Share to: 21
- **AI Agents** — Share from: 0; Share to: 13
- **Rest API** — Share from: 19; Share to: 31
- **Azure** — Share from: 4; Share to: 15
- **LLM** — Share from: 4; Share to: 11
- **Metabase** — Share from: 4; Share to: 11
- **Prometheus** — Share from: 4; Share to: 10

### Falling

- **SQL** — Share from: 54; Share to: 27
- **Rust** — Share from: 27; Share to: 10
- **C++** — Share from: 27; Share to: 13
- **Scala** — Share from: 19; Share to: 5
- **Terraform** — Share from: 23; Share to: 10
- **GitOps** — Share from: 19; Share to: 6
- **CI/CD** — Share from: 23; Share to: 13
- **ArgoCD** — Share from: 15; Share to: 5

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