Jobs at Alpaca

• Manage new data licenses and renewals with all of our data sources, including exchange groups and other data providers
• Track license terms, renewal dates and obligations so that nothing lapses

• Own the marketing strategy and plan for Alpaca’s market data product, setting priorities, budgets and goals, and measuring impact
• Design, build and execute HubSpot email campaigns to our existing Trading API and Broker API customers, coordinating closely with our sales and customer service teams

• Design, build and maintain distributed backend services, APIs and data models for Security Master and corporate actions.
• Extend reference data systems to support new instruments, asset classes and market-specific requirements, including futures and prediction markets.

• Work with people who care more about clear thinking and getting it right than about tenure or title
• Own a project from the first conversation about the problem through to what's running in production. We'll tell you who to talk to. The rest is yours.

• Support the execution of Alpaca’s cybersecurity risk management program
• Conduct cyber risk assessments across cloud infrastructure , APIs, trading systems, and internal platforms

• Operations scope: defining what ACCC must support across accounts, trading, clearing, settlement, custody, books and records, and asset servicing.
• Partner firm handoffs: what partners send us, what we send back, and who does what across accounts, trades, cash, and securities.

• Architect and design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems spanning multiple products or services.
• Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, APIs, and third-party vendor integrations.

• Design, build, and operate core data platform infrastructure, including distributed query engines, lakehouse storage, orchestration, and streaming pipelines.
• Contribute to regional platform deployments, building scalable and repeatable infrastructure using Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code.

• Act as the primary contact for B2B/enterprise customers, accountable for building and maintaining strong relationships with key contacts throughout the customer lifecycle
• Ensure customer satisfaction, retention, and success

• Support due diligence reviews for new and existing partners, including fintech companies, financial institutions, vendors, and other third-party service providers.
• Communicate regularly with prospective and onboarding partners globally to help them understand requirements, timelines, and outstanding documentation needs.

• Primary responsibility for the daily monitoring and surveillance of all customer activity
• Primary responsibility for daily operational tasks including trading, new accounts, and cash management functions;

Cryptocurrency trading executions and exceptions (errors, corrections, etc.)
Assist with customer onboarding, including KYC and account approval
Review of general ledger accounts, identify and reconcile account discrepancies

• Agent Identity: Define how AI agents, bots, and automations authenticate, what they can access, and how their actions are attributed and audited.
• Tool Access: Own security requirements for AI tool integrations, including least-privilege access and credential handling.

• IAM and SSO Standards: Define and maintain security standards for SSO and conditional access across cloud, SaaS, and internal systems.
• Multi-Factor Authentication: Own multi-factor authentication standards, including phishing-resistant methods, and keep them enforced.

• Log Onboarding: Onboard new security log sources across cloud, identity, endpoint, SaaS, and application systems, including parsing, normalization, and data quality checks.
• Detection Development: Build, test, and tune detection rules based on threat intelligence, incident learnings, and emerging attack techniques, mapped to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.

• Own IT support end-to-end—be the reliable go-to for staff, while turning recurring issues into durable fixes and automations
• Diagnose and resolve complex cross-platform problems across macOS, Windows, and Linux

• Provide technical support and relationship management for existing enterprise customers, acting as a trusted technical advisor throughout the partner lifecycle.
• Partner with the Sales and Solutions teams on pre-sales technical discussions, solution design, and API consultations, and present compelling product and technical use cases to prospective clients.

• Transaction Monitoring: Perform daily review and disposition of transaction monitoring alerts (fiat and crypto) to identify unusual or suspicious activity.
• Investigate & Report: Conduct deep-dive investigations into complex user accounts and blockchain transactions. Draft high-quality narratives and prepare/file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) with appropriate regulatory bodies (e.g., FinCEN).

• Own the end-to-end accounting function for the company's crypto and tokenization-related activities, including month-end and quarter-end close processes, reconciliation review, journal entry reviews, and financial reporting.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance accounting policies, procedures, and controls related to cryptoc...

• Prepare and document journal entries in accordance with GAAP and company policies.
• Own and help optimize the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and process automation initiatives.

• Design and build Alpaca’s agent-facing developer platform: MCP servers, tools, skills, and the APIs behind them.
• Evolve that platform as the MCP protocol and connector, plugin, and skill standards change.