Jobs at Alpaca

Provide business-oriented legal guidance on U.S. broker-dealer regulation, digital assets, payments, privacy, product launches, marketing, onboarding, regulatory engagement, agreements, policies, and disputes. Monitor SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC developments; conduct legal research; advise cross-functional teams; and manage litigation, arbitration, outside counsel, claims, and discovery.

Own high-impact cross-functional operating constraints from discovery through measurable resolution. Diagnose root causes across domains, design and build process, automation, governance, or organizational solutions, mobilize teams without direct authority, drive adoption, measure outcomes, and establish durable ownership. The role requires systems thinking, analytical rigor, prioritization, executive communication, and sustained implementation to create operating leverage across the company.

Design, build, and operate highly available GCP infrastructure for trading-critical systems. Own Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes and GKE operations, observability, networking, data stores, and message brokers. Build self-service developer platforms, implement SRE practices, manage incidents and postmortems, and participate in a global follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

Manage trading operations, including customer activity surveillance, trade execution monitoring, exception handling, cryptocurrency inventory, cash management, and account reconciliation. Support anti-money laundering investigations, analyze data, improve workflows and tools, and coordinate with internal and external partners. The role requires strong attention to detail, adaptability, independent judgment, effective communication, and weekend availability.

Design, build, and maintain scalable brokerage systems supporting international markets. Develop Go-based backend services, gRPC microservices, React interfaces, and vendor integrations. Collaborate with global engineering teams to support multiple languages, currencies, and markets. Lead regional reliability efforts, act as incident commander, troubleshoot production issues, mentor engineers, and contribute to recruitment and cross-functional initiatives. Participate in on-call support and help ensure proactive 24x7 system stability.

Lead and conduct AML, anti-fraud, and securities fraud investigations; prepare SARs; respond to sanctions and regulatory requests; maintain risk assessments; support audits and regulatory engagements; develop policies, procedures, and monitoring controls; collaborate with stakeholders and compile reports for management and regulators.

As an Operations Reliability Engineer, design and implement automations to eliminate manual tasks in brokerage operations, focusing on efficiency and reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Manage core crypto products, conduct market analysis, liaise with partners, and oversee compliance for regulated crypto infrastructure. Enhance developer experience and operational efficiency.

Leads Alpaca’s global Corporate Actions function across U.S. and international markets. Oversees mandatory and voluntary events, supervisory controls, reconciliations, incident management, exception handling, team performance, and operational risk. Partners with Product, Engineering, Trading, Ledger, Security Master, and Operations teams to improve system synchronization, automation, observability, and scalability. Builds global operating standards across custodians, currencies, tax regimes, depositories, and market conventions while developing team expertise and succession coverage.

Own full-cycle recruiting for high-volume technical roles, primarily in Engineering. Partner with engineering leaders, develop hiring strategies and talent pipelines, manage concurrent searches, source difficult-to-find candidates, report on recruiting metrics, improve candidate experience, and use AI, ATS tools, and recruiting data to enhance hiring processes.

Design, build, and operate Alpaca's scalable data platform and lakehouse infrastructure. Build low-latency streaming and CDC ingestion, batch pipelines landing in Iceberg, and tooling for BI and AI consumers. Manage IaC, Kubernetes deployments, monitoring/incident response, and partner with DevOps and analytics teams to meet growing data requirements.

Lead business development for Alpaca’s tokenized equity network by developing issuer, market maker, liquidity provider, exchange, wallet, and custodian partnerships. Own partner onboarding, commercial negotiations, pipeline reporting, and network growth while collaborating with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance. Help shape partnership models, liquidity structures, go-to-market strategy, and digital asset infrastructure expansion while monitoring regulatory and competitive developments.

Lead Alpaca’s media and content strategy, building an AI-first content operating system and scalable media brand. Own editorial voice, podcasts, video, newsletters, executive thought leadership, distribution, audience growth, governance, measurement, and optimization. Transform company initiatives into multi-channel content while partnering across business functions. Build and manage a world-class content and media team focused on brand influence, audience engagement, and commercial impact.

Own the product lifecycle and architecture for Alpaca’s clearing infrastructure, including brokerage, custody, ledgers, settlements, stock records, regulatory books, asset movement, and multi-currency support. Partner with engineering, operations, finance, compliance, legal, treasury, risk, and product teams to build scalable, regulator-ready systems across global asset classes. Translate complex clearing requirements into technical designs, prototypes, and production infrastructure while leading teams in a high-growth environment.

Designs and scales mission-critical market data services for stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange. Responsibilities include developing backend systems, maintaining software quality and test coverage, participating in code reviews, troubleshooting incidents, and building developer-focused APIs and infrastructure using modern cloud, containerization, and orchestration practices.

No specific responsibilities were listed. Likely to lead and scale operations for digital assets, manage brokerage/clearing operational processes, ensure compliance, and coordinate cross-functional teams.

The Senior Full-Stack Engineer will design, implement, and maintain systems for Trading API customers, focusing on both frontend and backend development, while leading projects and mentoring peers.

Design and build Alpaca's low-latency, high-throughput algo trading platform. Implement frontend and backend components, optimize performance, design distributed systems and data models, and develop/order and risk management systems for high availability.

Lead strategy, growth, licensing, and operations for Alpaca's global crypto exchange business. Drive product, commercial, vendor, and compliance initiatives; oversee audits, expansion, B2B/B2C sales, GTM, and cross-functional coordination to scale a compliant crypto trading platform.

The role involves leading the engineering team to build and scale institutional trading capabilities across various asset classes while ensuring a robust architecture and technical standards.