DevOps Team Lead, Core Foundation at Alpaca

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p> <p>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&nbsp;<a href="https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/">recent Series D funding round</a> brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.</p> <p>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 9 million brokerage accounts.</p> <p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of&nbsp;<strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p> <p>We're a dynamic team of 380+ 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!<br><br>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.</p></div><h4><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Your Role:</strong></span></h4> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As the DevOps Team Lead for our Core Foundation pod, you will lead the "engine room" of Alpaca’s most critical infrastructure initiatives. You will manage a talented, globally distributed team of engineers (spanning APAC, EMEA, and AMER) responsible for Heavy Compute, Core Networking, Stateful Data, Observability, and Cloud/Physical Infrastructure.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a <strong>leadership and operations-first role</strong>. While you need a solid technical background to guide the team and understand our stack, we are not looking for an individual contributor to be in the weeds of the tech. Instead, we need a masterful planner, communicator, and people manager. You will establish robust support frameworks, orchestrate complex rollouts, manage incident response, and ensure the seamless delivery of our highest-priority yearly infrastructure and architectural evolution initiatives.</span></p> <h4><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Things You Get To Do:</strong></span></h4> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>People &amp; Tech Leadership:</strong> Lead, mentor, and foster a healthy, high-performing globally distributed engineering team.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Prioritization &amp; Planning:</strong> Own the execution and delivery of highly critical, complex yearly roadmap items centered around large-scale foundational infrastructure upgrades, high availability, and platform resilience.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Change Management Ownership:</strong> Own and drive the change management processes across engineering and product domains. You will orchestrate the smooth delivery of major systemic changes, ensuring alignment, mitigating friction, and breaking down silos between diverse technical groups to deliver cohesive infrastructure solutions.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Support Frameworks &amp; Methodologies:</strong> Design, implement, and refine robust support workflows, agile planning methodologies, and deployment/rollout strategies to ensure operational excellence.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>On-Call &amp; Incident Management:</strong> Manage and optimize the global on-call rotation to ensure team well-being while maintaining high availability. Lead incident response (via Rootly), establishing clear communication, rapid resolution processes, and blameless post-mortems.</span></li> </ul> <h4><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Who you are (must-haves):</strong></span></h4> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, DevOps Lead, or Site Reliability Engineering Lead, with a track record of successfully managing globally distributed teams.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Exceptional people management skills, with a deep focus on coaching, mentoring, and fostering team culture across multiple time zones.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deep expertise in engineering support frameworks, roadmap planning, and team prioritization methodologies.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proven experience owning Change Management lifecycles. You have a unifying leadership style with a proven ability to break down organizational silos, build trust between disparate teams, and shepherd complex systemic updates from conception to deployment.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Extensive experience managing Incident Management lifecycles and running sustainable, global on-call rotations.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Incredibly strong communication and organizational skills, with a proven ability to drive and coordinate complex, multi-stage tech rollouts and deployments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A solid technical background in modern DevOps/SRE ecosystems. You don't need to be hands-on daily, but you must fluently understand the concepts and operational realities surrounding Kubernetes (GKE), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Relational Databases (PostgreSQL), and Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A strategic mindset capable of navigating shifting priorities, acting as the steady organizational force for the company's core infrastructure foundation.</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><h3><strong>How We Take Care of You:</strong></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Competitive Salary &amp; Stock Options</span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Health Benefits</li> <li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card</span></li> </ul> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.<br></span></em></p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><a href="https://files.alpaca.markets/disclosures/AlpacaRecruitmentPrivacyPolicy.pdf"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recruitment Privacy Policy</span></em></a></span></p></div>