Jobs at Alpaca

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.

Provide IT helpdesk support, deploy and manage laptops/devices, manage MDM and endpoint security, handle onboarding/offboarding, maintain asset inventory, assist with procurement, shipping, and training, and support cloud and on-prem networking at direction of Security Team.

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.

Manage the tax product lifecycle for a broker-dealer, ensuring accurate and timely IRS reporting and vendor management. Drive cross-functional collaboration and scale tax operations with new asset classes and account types.

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.

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.

Lead and run Alpaca's data governance and data security program across the lakehouse and analytics stack. Build policies, data classification, entitlement reviews, access controls, metadata/lineage, data quality standards, vendor and use-case reviews, audit evidence for SOC2/ISO27001, and support cross-border sensitive data requests while partnering with Data Engineering, Data Science, Security, Privacy, and Legal.

The Product Manager, New Assets will own a core trading product area, working with partners and developers to design and implement new trading capabilities while ensuring compliance with regulations and operational efficiency. Success is measured by partner adoption and production usage.