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Job description
Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 9 million brokerage accounts.
Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement resiliency across our cloud platform and CI/CD pipelines.
- Embed “security as code” and lead incident response for high-severity outages.
- Automate remediation and harden deployments.
- Own observability and drive reductions in security/infra related incident impact.
- Embed security into CI/CD pipelines and manage vulnerability and patch management.
- Strengthen cloud and Kubernetes environments.
- Conduct security reviews and threat modeling for new services.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps, security engineering, or cloud security.
- Strong experience with CSPs, Kubernetes, Terraform, and container security.
- Deep understanding of secure CI/CD, including IaC security and policy-as-code.
- Solid background in identity & access security.
- Experience automating vulnerability management and patching workflows.
- Proficient in Python, Go, or similar for automation and security tooling.
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with DevOps and Engineering teams.
Conditions
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
About Alpaca
Alpaca is a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs, providing access to stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto, along with embeddable finance solutions like tokenization and securities lending. It serves retail traders, institutional investors, app developers, and fintech companies worldwide through its API-first platform. The company, originally started in 2015 as a database and machine learning firm, is headquartered in San Mateo, California.