--- title: 'Senior DevOps Engineer at Alpaca' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-devops-engineer-alpaca-americas-7zr15g0jgymz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Senior DevOps Engineer at Alpaca - **Company:** Alpaca - **Location:** Americas - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/alpaca/jobs/6167250004 ## Job description Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. 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, totalling over 10 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 $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply. ## Role As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will design, build and operate the infrastructure that lets Alpaca scale globally and run trading-critical systems with confidence. You will have the autonomy to design and implement solutions against clearly defined goals - and a real voice in shaping those goals with the team. We are not hiring a specialist in any single tool. We are looking for a well-rounded infrastructure engineer who thinks in cloud architecture and Infrastructure-as-Code, with a genuine Platform-as-a-Product mindset: someone who measures success by how quickly and safely the rest of engineering can ship, and who treats manual toil as a bug to be engineered away. You are comfortable operating our data stores (PostgreSQL, Message Brokers) at an operator level, partnering with our SRE and database specialists on the deeper work. Things You Get To Do - Design and evolve our cloud architecture on GCP - networking, interconnects, IAM and high-availability topology - and express it entirely as code with Terraform, following GitOps as a first principle. - Build and own the CI/CD pipelines that plan, review, test and safely apply IaC changes - Policy-as-Code guardrails, drift detection and progressive rollout so infrastructure changes ship as confidently as application code. - Advance Platform-as-a-Product: build self-serve capabilities and paved paths so engineers can provision what they need, through a golden path rather than a hand-off. - Strengthen our observability stack - metrics, logs, traces and alerting across Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Alertmanager - so the platform is easy to run and reason about. - Operate our GKE clusters and the infrastructure services that run on them - Helm-packaged workloads, message brokers (RabbitMQ, IBM MQ) and data stores. - Participate in our Follow-The-Sun on-call model: watch and triage alerts, join and declare incidents, lead structured debugging and escalation, and drive blameless post-mortems and the post-actions that actually close the loop. - Embed SRE practices - SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, capacity planning - into how Core Infrastructure builds and operates, working closely with our SRE function. ## Who You Are (Must-Haves) - 5+ years in a DevOps, Platform/Infrastructure, or SRE role, with a proven track record operating large-scale, high-availability, high-performance systems in production. - Deep hands-on experience designing cloud architecture on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the primary cloud - landing zones, networking, IAM and high-availability topology. - Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform, structuring large codebases across multiple environments, with GitOps as a first principle and least-privilege as a default mindset. - Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines for IaC - automated plan/apply, code review, Policy-as-Code, drift detection and safe rollout. - Significant production experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE) and packaging/deploying workloads with Helm. - Solid cloud and L3/L4-L7 networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS, TLS, interconnects) and comfort debugging cross-service connectivity. - Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack - Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Alertmanager - across metrics, logs, traces and alerting. - Operator-level familiarity with data stores such as PostgreSQL and Message Brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ, RedPanda) - able to run and troubleshoot them in production. - A good understanding of SRE practices - SLOs/error budgets, capacity planning - and a Platform-as-a-Product mindset. - Strong grasp of incident management end to end: joining and declaring incidents, structured debugging under pressure, escalation, clear documentation, and post-mortems that drive real change. - Able and willing to take part in a Follow-The-Sun on-call rotation from APAC hours, and to work effectively in a distributed, async-first team with strong written communication. Who You Might Be (Bonus Points) You can succeed in this role without all of the below, but any of these will help you ramp faster: - Policy-as-code and IaC quality tooling (OPA/Conftest, Checkov, tflint, Atlantis, or similar). - Experience managing Terraform state, module registries and versioning at scale across many teams. - Experience building self-serve developer platforms and internal golden paths (e.g. with Backstage, Tilt, or similar). - Experience with the Alloy collector and with incident tooling such as Rootly. - Working proficiency in Go for automation and tooling. - Strong Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) and container (Docker/containerd) fundamentals. - Security and compliance experience in a regulated environment (SOC 2, secrets management, audit logging). - Familiarity with trading, brokerage, or other regulated fintech domains, and with low-latency systems. How We Take Care of You: - 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 Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. [Recruitment Privacy Policy](https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf) ## About Alpaca ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Alpaca provides developer-first APIs and brokerage infrastructure that enable fintechs, institutions, and individual developers to build and scale investing and trading applications across stocks, options, and crypto. - **Entity Type**: Private (backed by $320M in total funding) - **Headquarters**: Silicon Valley, California, USA (globally distributed remote company) - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Yoshi Yokokawa (CEO) and Hitoshi Harada (CPO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Technology (Fintech), Brokerage Infrastructure, API Services - **Target customers**: B2B (fintechs, global financial institutions, broker-dealers, registered investment advisors) and B2C (algo traders, quant funds, retail investors, developers) - **Mission statement**: "Open financial services to everyone on the planet" — allowing 8+ billion people to access financial markets. ## Products & Services - **Broker API**: Full-stack, end-to-end brokerage infrastructure service that empowers global fintechs and institutions to build customizable investing applications and platforms. Includes clearing, custody, compliance, and regulatory setups. - **Trading API**: Allows programmatic traders, retail investors, hedge funds, and prop firms to develop algorithms that automate trading strategies across stocks, options, and crypto. Features REST/FIX integration, real-time market data, and 1.5ms order processing via OMS v2. - **Tokenization Network**: Enables tokenized equities to trade as one connected market with instant in-kind mint/redeem, deep liquidity, and 24/7 API access. - **High Yield Cash**: Competitive APY on uninvested USD cash with up to $2.5M in FDIC sweep coverage. - **Fully Paid Securities Lending**: Enables clients to lend securities for additional yield. - **24/5 Trading**: Always-on trading with automatic session-aware order routing and real-time overnight data. - **Self-Clearing Operations**: Full self-clearing broker-dealer (member of DTCC, FICC, OCC, Nasdaq Exchange) providing reduced costs for partners. - **Paper Trading & Backtesting**: API sandbox environment and backtesting with historical market data. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $320 million from top-tier investors - **Notable Investors**: Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Eldridge, Y Combinator, and angel investors including Joshua S. Levine (former CTO/COO of ETRADE), Nate Rodland (former COO of Robinhood), Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Jacqueline Reses, Asiff Hirjii (former President/COO of Coinbase), Aaron Levie (CEO of Box), and founders of Plaid and Wealthsimple. - **Growth Signals**: - Over 7 million brokerage accounts opened across 40+ countries - 61,000+ monthly active developers (MAD) - 250+ employees in 25 countries - Self-clearing since 2024; member of DTCC, FICC, OCC, and Nasdaq Exchange (2025) - ISO 27001:2022 certified, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, EU US DPF, CSA Level 1, ICO compliant - Excess SIPC coverage up to $30M in securities and $1M in cash per customer ## Competitive Advantages - **Developer-first approach**: Easy-to-use APIs with SDKs in Python, .NET/C#, Go, Node, and more; 99.99% system uptime as of January 2026. - **Full-stack regulatory infrastructure**: FINRA-registered broker-dealer, self-clearing, SIPC member with excess coverage, and multiple international regulatory licenses (Bahamas, Japan, FinCEN MSB). - **Multi-asset support**: Stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, tokenized equities — all via a single API. - **Global reach**: Powers financial institutions across 40+ countries including Australia, Chile, Denmark, France, Mexico, UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, and more. - **Proprietary technology**: Builds its own technology stack rather than relying on legacy vendors (e.g., open-source MarketStore database for financial time-series data). ## Strategic Focus - **Global expansion**: Actively working on new product offerings such as global stocks and index options. - **Deepening regulatory moat**: Continued investment in self-clearing capabilities and international licensing to serve partners worldwide. - **Tokenization & digital assets**: Expanding the Instant Tokenization Network and digital asset offerings for 24/7 liquidity. - **Embedded finance**: Helping fintechs and institutions embed investing features directly into their own platforms. - **Scaling the developer community**: Growing the 61,000+ monthly active developer base through open-source contributions, community platforms, and educational resources. ## Why Work Here - **100% remote-first**: Globally distributed team across 20+ countries and almost every time zone; no central office requirement. - **Global, multicultural team**: "Melting pot of diverse backgrounds" from tech startups to deep financial experience; team members in 25 countries. - **Culture**: Goal-oriented, radical honesty, empathy-driven, and focused on solving hard problems. Described as "ambitiously creative" with a "last 10% of effort" mentality. - **Career growth**: Fast-scaling startup with "limitless opportunities" for those looking to challenge themselves and advance. - **Impact**: Directly shaping the future of finance by disrupting a legacy industry; building infrastructure that enables millions of people to access financial markets. - **Leadership**: Founded by Yoshi Yokokawa (former Lehman Brothers, Endeavor Entrepreneur) and Hitoshi Harada (former Lead Architect at Greenplum/EMC, PostgreSQL contributor); executive team from Robinhood, Strike, TD Securities, TMX Group. - **Notable perks**: Competitive compensation, equity, and the chance to work on open-source projects (e.g., MarketStore). ## Sources 1. [alpaca.markets - About Us](https://alpaca.markets/about-us) 2. [alpaca.markets - Homepage](https://alpaca.markets/) 3. [alpaca.markets - Careers/Hiring](https://alpaca.markets/hiring) 4. [LinkedIn - Alpaca](https://www.linkedin.com/company/alpacamarkets) 5. 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