DevSecOps Engineer
Who We Are
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.
Our Team Members
We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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 valuesâStay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountableâand are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Your Role
We are seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to own the intersection of security, reliability, and DevOps. This role will design and implement resiliency across our cloud platform and CI/CD pipelines, embed âsecurity as code,â help lead incident response for high-severity outages, and partner with engineering teams to enable safe, fast delivery at scale.
You will be hands-on and strategic: automating remediation, hardening deployments, owning observability, and driving measurable reductions in security/infra related incident impact. This role reports to the CISO, with a dotted line into Engineering and works closely with DevOps, Product, and Engineering leadership.
The Security Team is 100% distributed and remote.
Things You Get To Do
The core responsibilities of the DevSecOps Engineer role are focused on embedding security throughout our infrastructure and software development lifecycle, enhancing cyber resilience, and driving a strong security culture.
Security Engineering & Automation
- Secure SDLC Integration: Embed security into CI/CD pipelines by implementing and owning secure controls, including Infra Please mention the word PROTECTION and tag RMjYwNzo1MzAwOjIwZDo3ZDAwOjo= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjYwNzo1MzAwOjIwZDo3ZDAwOjo=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human. Apply To This Job