Alpaca

28 open remote positions

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries. With over 400 globally distributed team members, they foster a culture of curiosity, empathy, and accountability, backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier investors.

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Open Positions

  • Design, build, and maintain distributed backend services, APIs, and data models for Security Master and corporate actions.
  • Build reliable workflows for ingesting, validating, and processing third-party instrument and corporate action information.
  • Own complex features and technical decisions from design through production, including testing, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

  • Lead the marketing strategy and execution for Alpaca's market data product, driving adoption and retention across existing and new customers.
  • Design and manage HubSpot email campaigns, sales collateral, and events while coordinating with sales, customer service, and PR teams.
  • Plan and optimize Google Ads and LinkedIn campaigns, monitor competitors, and turn insights into actionable recommendations.

  • Support the execution of Alpaca’s cybersecurity risk management program and conduct risk assessments across cloud infrastructure, APIs, and trading systems.
  • Help develop and maintain AI governance controls aligned with evolving regulatory expectations such as the EU AI Act.
  • Perform third-party/vendor security and AI risk assessments, and contribute to control testing across frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF.

  • Act as the bridge between Canadian brokerage operations and the product roadmap, leading structured discovery and writing epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
  • Own requirements across ACCC brokerage operations, mapping end-to-end processes and translating regulatory obligations into product requirements.
  • Produce process maps, capability matrices, requirement specs, and decision logs, working with Product and Engineering to sequence MVP to launch.

Senior SRE

  • Operate production day-to-day, handling oncall, incident response, postmortems, and follow-ups that close the loop.
  • Own reliability practices by defining SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and strengthening observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
  • Ship infrastructure through code in a GitOps workflow while looking after PostgreSQL performance, migrations, HA/DR, and CDC pipelines.

  • Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Alpaca's account opening and identity verification services.
  • Manage the lifecycle of various account structures, including fully disclosed, omnibus, and sub-accounting, for global B2B clients.
  • Lead KYC and identity verification initiatives, collaborating with legal, compliance, and go-to-market teams to deliver a world-class account experience.