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# Sr. Insider & Data Risk Analyst at Alpaca 

- **Company:** Alpaca 
- **Location:** Global
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/alpaca/jobs/6137928004

## 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.

## Your Role

As Senior Insider & Data Risk Analyst, you will own insider risk investigations and help mature Alpaca's Insider Risk Management Program and Data Loss Prevention capabilities. You will triage and investigate signals across people, devices, identity, and data movement, apply risk tiering and escalation standards, and partner with People/HR, Legal, Compliance, Engineering, and IT on sensitive cases involving departures, policy violations, and data misuse.

This role sits at the intersection of insider risk, data protection, privacy, and financial services. Reporting to the Cyber GRC Lead, you will serve as Security's escalation point for insider and data loss cases affecting trading systems, customer data, and proprietary information. This is a practical senior individual contributor role for someone experienced, discreet, and highly organized who can own investigation workflows, translate risk into clear language for leadership, and build durable programs and processes. Prior experience in a regulated or financial services environment is a strong plus.

Things You Get To Do

- Own insider risk investigations from triage through closure, including case timelines, containment, escalation, and documented determinations and lessons learned
- Mature Alpaca's Insider Risk Management Program, including case management processes, risk tiering, and repeatable workflows
- Operate and tune Data Loss Prevention tooling across multiple environments and endpoints, refining rulesets to improve signal and reduce false positives
- Mature data classification and align DLP controls to sensitivity levels
- Investigate potential data exfiltration, misuse, and policy violations; build and tune detections and monitoring
- Investigate misuse and exfiltration risk across source code, Google, AWS, Azure, third party apps, Slack, and trading and platform system access
- Partner with People/HR, Legal, Compliance, and IT on sensitive cases (departures, policy violations, data mishandling) with discretion and care
- Assess risk from unauthorized AI/agentic tooling and sensitive data exposure through approved and unsanctioned AI tooling
- Leverage Agentic AI to continue maturation of Insider risk program
- Lead insider and data risk assessments and maintain risk registers
- Support internal and external audits and regulatory requirements
- Contribute insider risk and data handling content to the security awareness and training program
- Serve as the insider risk escalation point for the Security team and mentor others on investigations and casework
- Monitor developments in insider risk, data protection, privacy, and financial services regulation.

## Who You Are (Must Haves)

- Highly organized with strong attention to detail; comfortable in a fast paced, high demand, distributed environment
- 4+ years in insider risk, DLP operations, digital forensics, or security investigations, including hands on case management on sensitive personnel matters
- Hands on experience leading investigations and case management with discretion, integrity, and sound judgment on sensitive personnel matters
- Hands-on experience operating DLP in SaaS and endpoint environments and tuning rules to improve signal quality
- Experience with workflow automation, AI, or SOAR platforms for alert triage and case orchestration
- Solid understanding of data classification and data governance
- Working knowledge of SIEM and log analysis (e.g., ELK/Elastic, Splunk) to support investigations
- Familiarity with frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and privacy regulations (GDPR, APPI)
- Strong written communication, able to draft clear investigation reports, case documentation, and executive summaries
- High integrity and discretion when handling confidential and sensitive information
- Ability to work across People/HR, Legal, Compliance, Engineering, and IT

Who You Might Be (Nice to Haves)

- Academic background, personal interest, or real world experience in fintech, financial services, or trading platforms
- Digital forensics or eDiscovery experience
- Experience with UEBA or insider risk detection platforms
- Scripting or automation for detections and data analysis (e.g., Python, SQL)
- Experience with major cloud platforms
- Experience supporting or observing SOC 2, ISO 27001, or regulatory audits
- Certifications such as GCFA, GCFE, CISSP, CISM, CIPP, CFE, or similar
- Interest in AI related data risk (e.g., data exposure through AI tools) and using AI tooling to work more efficiently
- Familiarity with financial services regulatory expectations (e.g., SEC/FINRA, broker dealer controls) and multi jurisdiction privacy requirements
- Experience in security operations or incident response

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. [docs.alpaca.markets - About Alpaca](https://docs.alpaca.markets/us/docs/about-alpaca)

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