Jobs at Alpaca

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.

Serve as the technical product expert supporting enterprise sales: present demos, translate requirements into solutions, own technical engagements (discovery, RFPs, validation), create sales collateral, advise on regional regulatory/compliance specifics, collaborate with Sales and Product, and travel as needed to close and onboard partners.

The Director of Compliance oversees the firm's compliance program, partnering with business units to ensure regulatory adherence and improve compliance processes. Responsibilities include drafting policies, managing regulatory filings, and supporting examinations.

Design and implement Alpaca's low-latency, high-throughput algo trading platform. Work across frontend and backend, databases, and distributed systems; optimize performance and concurrency; architect scalable, highly available services; and develop/extend OMS and RMS functionality for trading/exchange systems.

Own and optimize AI-powered support tools (chatbots, agent copilots, knowledge retrieval, automation). Monitor performance, identify automation opportunities, create and test prompts/workflows, maintain training data, coordinate integrations, and produce documentation and training for support teams.

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.

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.

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.

Own end-to-end global equity settlement processes, investigate and resolve trade exceptions and reconciliation breaks, monitor settlement activity, coordinate with custodians and counterparties, maintain regulatory controls and reporting, and partner with Engineering to automate workflows and improve operational efficiency.

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.

The International Accounting Manager will manage global accounting operations, oversee multi-entity consolidations, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance accounting processes within a rapidly expanding, diverse financial services context.

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Alpaca, you will ensure system reliability and performance, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with teams to design scalable features.

Lead Alpaca's data department, managing 15 team members across Platform Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science. Oversee data strategy, operational delivery, and architecture decisions, ensuring alignment with business needs and cost management.

Operate and improve Alpaca's production infrastructure: on-call incident response, define SLIs/SLOs, enhance observability, ship infrastructure as code via GitOps, and strengthen PostgreSQL reliability (performance, migrations, HA/DR). Mentor teams on reliability and database fundamentals.

Build and architect Alpaca's advisory services (block trading, portfolio management, IRA). Design scalable, low-latency distributed systems, write full-stack code, optimize throughput, work with messaging systems and OMS, and implement high-availability, concurrency-safe solutions for financial trading/exchange workloads.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Alpaca's platform services, including event streaming infrastructure and authentication systems, while ensuring software quality and reliability.

As a Senior AI Platform Engineer, you will build and maintain AI platform infrastructure, enabling scalable access to AI tools and workflows, ensure security and reliability, and define deployment standards.

Design, implement, and maintain frontend applications and internal tools. Own delivery of high-visibility features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor peers, and ensure performant, accessible, polished user interfaces integrated with backend systems.