Director of Platform & Infrastructure

About Alpaca

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 C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 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, totalling over 6 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.

Your Role

Alpaca is looking for a Director of Platform / Infrastructure Engineering to lead the design, development, technical operations, and scaling of the company\'s core infrastructure and developer platforms, ensuring they are secure, resilient, and highly available to support Alpaca\'s fast-paced growth. This role balances strategic leadership with hands-on execution, driving initiatives in cloud architecture, developer experience, CI / CD, availability, automation, security, and scalability, while fostering a culture of reliability and compliance. You will need to collaborate closely with product engineering teams, security, broker-dealer operations, and report directly to the CT

Responsibilities

• Escalation point on the Engineering side for high-severity incidents
• Monitor and optimize cloud spend and infrastructure costs, and manage vendor relationships.
• Continuously scale and improve common infrastructure elements and platform services, which are the foundation of product services.
• Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams responsible for cloud infrastructure, DevOps, site reliability and technical operations.
• Oversee availability, capacity planning, and disaster recovery to ensure systems are resilient and fault-tolerant.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements across infrastructure and operations.
• Establish and monitor KPIs / SLAs for platform reliability, security, and performance.
• Provide thought leadership on infrastructure strategy while being willing to dive deep into technical challenges when needed.
• Improve developer experience through better tooling, workflows, and internal platforms that accelerate productivity and reduce friction.

Qualifications

Compensation and Benefits

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