Alpaca
fintech
SeniorAIPlatformEngineer
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“Senior AI Platform Engineer at Alpaca. Skills: AI Platform Engineering, Agentic AI Systems, LLM-powered Workflows, Cloud-native Systems, AI Governance. Own the technical capability layer that makes AI enablement possible. Build and maintain the platform infrastructure, connectors, execution patterns, and self-service tooling”
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years in software, platform, infrastructure, or adjacent engineering roles, Hands-on experience building agentic AI systems: LLM-powered workflows, tool-calling agents, evaluation loops, or autonomous execution, Direct experience with GCP, experience with APIs, auth, OAuth, secrets, CLI tooling, and deployment patterns, Cloud-native systems experience with containers, orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code, Experience implementing AI governance controls: access boundaries, audit logging, approval workflows, and safe deployment standards for higher-autonomy systems, Comfortable operating in both fast-moving, low-process environments and more structured, compliance-aware ones, bias toward simplification, standardization, and operational reliability over clever one-off solutions, Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, security, and non-technical stakeholders
Nice to Have
Shipped production agentic systems with real external tool access (filesystems, APIs, staging systems), Hands-on experience with Google Agent Engine (Vertex AI Agent Builder) or equivalent managed agent execution platforms, Direct experience with AI-native coding environments (eg. Cursor, Claude Code), Designed or operated agent sandboxing, isolation, or evaluation frameworks, Built self-service developer platforms or golden paths used by multiple teams, Has startup experience and knows how to build durably with limited resources, Familiarity with fintech, regulated environments, or compliance-aware deployment
What You'll Do.
Own the technical capability layer that makes AI enablement possible
Build and maintain the platform infrastructure
and self-service tooling
Own the connector and service integration layer that powers AI workflows across the company
Design and ship execution environments for agents and higher-autonomy AI workflows
Build reusable platform services
and self-service templates
Productize onboarding so it works reliably for both developers and non-developers
Define and enforce technical standards for agent execution
Partner with Security and IT to ship deployable patterns for higher-risk AI capabilities
Own the AI governance layer: access controls
and deployment boundaries for agentic workflows
and operational bar for AI-specific infrastructure
Act as the technical escalation point when onboarding or platform issues block rollout
Reduce the company's dependence on individual heroics by turning exception handling into repeatable paths
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with DevOps, Security, IT, and engineering teams across the company; Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, security, and non-technical stakeholders
Communication Scope
Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, security, and non-technical stakeholders
Full Job Description
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 D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 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 9 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 values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply. Your Role 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. You will build and maintain the platform infrastructure, conne
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