Applications are invited from suitable and qualified candidates for the Following Remote Tech Jobs at Alpaca.
About Alpaca
Alpaca is a financial technology company that provides API-based brokerage and trading infrastructure for individuals, developers, fintech companies, and financial institutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company develops technology that allows businesses and developers to build investing applications, brokerage platforms, and algorithmic trading systems using its APIs. Alpaca’s services provide access to financial markets and support trading across assets such as U.S. stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), options, and cryptocurrencies, while its market data tools provide access to real-time and historical financial information. Its Broker API is designed to help fintech companies and institutions build end-to-end brokerage experiences, including account opening, funding, trading, and portfolio management, while the Trading API enables retail, algorithmic, hedge fund, and proprietary traders to develop automated trading strategies.
Alpaca also emphasizes security, regulatory compliance, and developer-friendly technology, with brokerage services provided through regulated entities and infrastructure designed for global financial applications. The company works with fintechs and financial institutions in multiple countries and focuses on expanding access to financial markets through modern technology and API-driven solutions. With its combination of financial technology, brokerage infrastructure, market data, and developer tools, Alpaca provides career opportunities across software engineering, fintech, product development, cybersecurity, finance, operations, customer support, and other professional fields.
Summary
- Company: Alpaca
- Job Opening: 4 Positions
- Job Type: Full Time
- Location: Remote, USA
Job Opening: 4 Positions
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1. Job Title: Software Engineer – Market Data
- Job Type: Full Time
- Eligible Countries: All Countries
- Location: Remote, USA
Job Description:
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will build and own the frameworks, tooling, and CI/CD infrastructure that let Alpaca’s engineers ship new features quickly and reliably. This is a software engineering role at its core: you will spend most of your time writing Go, designing automated test frameworks, and digging into application code and Kubernetes when needed. Just as importantly, you will help redefine how we use AI to raise the bar on quality – leveraging LLMs and AI-driven tooling to generate tests, catch regressions before they ship, and turn every incident into durable, automated coverage. We are looking for engineers who treat quality as an engineering discipline and see AI as a force multiplier for it – people who build the systems that make testing fast, reliable, and effortless for the teams that depend on them.
Things You Get To Do
- Design and build automated test frameworks across our REST and gRPC API surface.
- Leverage AI and LLM-based tooling to accelerate test generation, harden regression coverage, and turn production incidents into automated tests – embedding these practices into the frameworks the whole engineering org relies on.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines – we use a mix of GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build.
- Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests to ensure our platform can handle growing demand.
- Introduce chaos engineering practices – designing fault-injection and resilience experiments that surface failure modes before our customers do.
- Standardize tooling and infrastructure to improve the day-to-day developer experience.
- Partner with other teams to raise test coverage, reliability, and speed across services.
- Dig into application code to root-cause failures and drive fixes to completion.
- Mentor and guide product engineers, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
Requirements:
- You have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer building and maintaining production systems.
- You have written code in strongly typed languages and have at least 1 year of experience with Go.
- You are fluent with AI-assisted engineering – you actively use LLM-based tools in your workflow and have a clear point of view on where they elevate quality (and where they don’t).
- You have built and maintained CI pipelines before – ideally with GitHub Actions or Google Cloud Build.
- You have designed and built automated test frameworks, and you understand the challenges microservices pose for reliable integration and end-to-end testing.
- You are familiar with Kubernetes beyond the basics – you can write a Helm chart for a new service with relative ease, you understand best practices around security, and you have prior job experience or certifications to prove this.
- You have worked at a startup before – you understand that things don’t always go according to plan, that there is significant technical debt, that some tasks just need to be done, and that sometimes there are no processes or documentation to guide your hand.
- You are not afraid of taking a task from start to finish – gathering requirements, figuring out and implementing the best technical solution, then deploying and monitoring the results.
See Also:
Who You Might Be (Bonus Points)
- You have used AI/LLM tooling to build QA automation – test generation, flaky-test triage, or incident-to-regression pipelines – and can speak to what worked and what didn’t.
- You have written code in Python or TypeScript, and can build efficient Dockerfiles and secure container images.
- You have implemented load tests with k6 (REST) and ghz (gRPC) and have experience analyzing pprof/trace output.
- You have done IaC deployments with Argo CD or Terraform, or have used Google Cloud Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine before. You are familiar with Tilt and have written a Kubernetes Operator before.
- You have practiced chaos engineering – running fault-injection or resilience experiments with tools like Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos, or Gremlin.
- You are familiar with testing event-driven systems using Kafka (or even better, Redpanda).
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
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2. Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – Ledger
- Job Type: Full Time
- Eligible Countries: All Countries
- Location: Remote, USA
Description:
As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.
The market data team is responsible for improving the overall architecture of Alpaca connected to data products such as stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets. Oversee their public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and is tasked with planning, ideating, experimenting, and putting into production the new services, and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly.
We are looking for senior or staff engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions. This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.
Things You Get To Do:
- Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems
- Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts)
- Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matters
- Maintain good software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
- You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature
Requirements:
- At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
- Experience with at least compiled imperative languages (e.g. Go, C, C++, Rust, etc.). Most of our critical services are written in Go
- SQL or relational database skills
- Familiarity with TCP/IP, and UDP networking
- Proficient with Linux/BSD, and shell scripting
- Excited about what we are building at Alpaca
- Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams
- Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems (we primarily use Kubernetes via GKE)
- Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
- A passion for financial markets
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
- Experience with Market Data
- Knowledge of microservice architectures
- Knowledge of clean code principles
- DevOps mindset is an asset
- Cloud Networking experience (BGP, VPC peering)
- Experience in building low-latency applications
- Experience with distributed key-value stores
- Experience with CI/CD
- A passion for financial markets or the desire to learn
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling
- Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking
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
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3. Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – Market Data
- Job Type: Full Time
- Eligible Countries: All Countries
- Location: Remote, USA
Description:
As a senior software engineer, you will help build and scale the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca and empower millions of users who are trading billions of dollars worth of assets.
The market data team is responsible for improving the overall architecture of Alpaca connected to data products such as stocks, options, crypto, and foreign exchange markets. Oversee their public API structure and documentation on both streaming and historical endpoints. The team is responsible for building a cohesive developer-first API and is tasked with planning, ideating, experimenting, and putting into production the new services, and libraries that overcome some of our greatest technical challenges as we continue to scale rapidly.
We are looking for senior or staff engineers who are keen on providing quality solutions, have great fundamentals, have proven experience building and architecting at scale, and are not afraid of challenging conventions. This demanding team also requires a deep understanding of POSIX-like operating systems, modern infrastructure, and orchestration practices.
Things You Get To Do:
- Influence the overall architecture of Alpaca’s market data systems
- Design highly scalable, mission-critical systems
- Obsess over latency (every nanosecond counts)
- Implement backend services and lead architecture where scalability and resilience matters
- Maintain good software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshooting on incidents and reported bugs
- You may be asked to be on-call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature
Requirements:
- At least 4 years of experience working on systems at scale
- Experience with at least compiled imperative languages (e.g. Go, C, C++, Rust, etc.). Most of our critical services are written in Go
- SQL or relational database skills
- Familiarity with TCP/IP, and UDP networking
- Proficient with Linux/BSD, and shell scripting
- Excited about what we are building at Alpaca
- Proven track record of architecting and leading medium-scale projects involving multiple teams
- Experience with Kubernetes or other workload orchestration and scheduling systems (we primarily use Kubernetes via GKE)
- Experience with major cloud platforms (we primarily use GCP)
- A passion for financial markets
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):
- Experience with Market Data
- Knowledge of microservice architectures
- Knowledge of clean code principles
- DevOps mindset is an asset
- Cloud Networking experience (BGP, VPC peering)
- Experience in building low-latency applications
- Experience with distributed key-value stores
- Experience with CI/CD
- A passion for financial markets or the desire to learn
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling
- Experience with capacity planning and benchmarking
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
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4. Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
- Job Type: Full Time
- Eligible Countries: All Countries
- Location: Remote, USA
Description:
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.
Requirements:
- 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
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