Alpaca Benefits Overview

Own the marketing strategy, planning, and execution for Alpaca’s market data product. Responsibilities include email campaigns, sales collateral, events, PR, competitive research, customer surveys, paid Google Ads and LinkedIn campaigns, and performance reporting. The role partners closely with sales, customer service, product, events, and PR teams to drive product adoption, retention, and go-to-market improvements.

Build and operate backend systems for securities lending, short borrowing, clearing, settlement, and brokerage operations. Own projects from scoping through production, develop partner APIs and batch pipelines, improve system scalability and reliability, integrate with external partners, and participate in on-call support. The role requires strong distributed-systems fundamentals and interest in securities finance and market infrastructure.

Design and operate Alpaca’s scalable data platform on GCP, including lakehouse infrastructure, Kubernetes-based deployments, streaming and CDC pipelines, batch ingestion, BI access, cataloging, monitoring, and governance. Build infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible, operate distributed query engines and Apache Iceberg, maintain reliability practices, and collaborate with DevOps and analytics teams to support rapidly evolving data requirements.