Alpaca provides API-based brokerage infrastructure that lets fintechs and financial institutions embed trading in stocks, ETFs, options and fixed-income products for customers worldwide.
<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p> <p><strong>Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure </strong>for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><strong>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.</strong><br><br><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p> <p>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!<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><h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Your Role</span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alpaca is building an AI Enablement function to move the company from scattered AI experimentation to durable, company-wide productivity gains. As Senior AI Platform Engineer, you will own the technical capability layer that makes that possible.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You will build and maintain the platform infrastructure, connectors, execution patterns, and self-service tooling that lets engineering and business teams use AI safely at scale by turning one-off setups and ad hoc tooling into reusable infrastructure, secure deployment standards, and productized onboarding.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This role requires hands-on experience building with agentic AI systems. This is not classical ML pipelines, but the emerging stack of LLM-powered agents, tool use, evaluation loops, and autonomous workflow execution. You should know this space well enough to make opinionated decisions about execution patterns, isolation boundaries, and what "safe and reliable" actually means for agents with real tool access.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a startup-inside-a-scaleup role. You will need to move fast with limited resources while meeting the standards a regulated fintech environment requires. You will work closely with DevOps, Security, IT, and engineering teams across the company.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Things You Get To Do</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own the connector and service integration layer that powers AI workflows across the company.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design and ship execution environments for agents and higher-autonomy AI workflows, including isolation boundaries and access controls.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build reusable platform services, golden paths, and self-service templates that reduce setup friction for teams building on AI.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Productize onboarding so it works reliably for both developers and non-developers without depending on manual intervention or tribal knowledge.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Define and enforce technical standards for agent execution, evaluation loops, and deployment.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Partner with Security and IT to ship deployable patterns for higher-risk AI capabilities.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own the AI governance layer: access controls, audit trails, approval criteria, and deployment boundaries for agentic workflows.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Set the reliability, observability, and operational bar for AI-specific infrastructure.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Act as the technical escalation point when onboarding or platform issues block rollout.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Reduce the company's dependence on individual heroics by turning exception handling into repeatable paths.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Who You Are (Must-Haves)</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8+ years in software, platform, infrastructure, or adjacent engineering roles.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on experience building agentic AI systems: LLM-powered workflows, tool-calling agents, evaluation loops, or autonomous execution — using frameworks like the Claude SDK, Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), LangGraph, or similar. Not classical ML or data pipelines.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Direct experience with GCP. We run on Google Cloud and you should be comfortable there.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong experience with APIs, auth, OAuth, secrets, CLI tooling, and depl