DevOps Team Lead Core Foundation

Who We Are

Alpaca is a US‑ headquartered, self‑clearing broker‑dealer and brokerage infrastructure provider. We deliver API‑driven trading for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more to institutions in 40 countries.

Your Role

As the DevOps Team Lead for our Core Foundation pod, you will lead the “engine room” of Alpaca’s most critical infrastructure initiatives and manage a globally distributed team across APAC, EMEA and AMER. The role is operations‑first: you provide strategic planning, communication, and people management while guiding the team through large‑scale upgrades and resilience projects.

Key Responsibilities

• People & Tech Leadership: Lead, mentor, and foster a healthy, high‑performing globally distributed engineering team.
• Prioritization & Planning: Own the execution and delivery of highly critical, complex yearly roadmap items centered on large‑scale foundational infrastructure upgrades, high availability, and platform resilience.
• Change Management Ownership: Own and drive the change management processes across engineering and product domains, ensuring smooth delivery of major systemic changes and alignment across technical groups.
• Support Frameworks & Methodologies: Design, implement, and refine robust support workflows, agile planning methodologies, and deployment/rollout strategies to achieve operational excellence.
• On‑Call & Incident Management: Manage and optimize the global on‑call rotation, lead incident response via Rootly, establish clear communication and rapid resolution processes, and conduct blameless post‑mortems.

Qualifications (Must‑Haves)

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, DevOps Lead or Site Reliability Engineering Lead managing globally distributed teams.
• Exceptional people‑management skills with a focus on coaching, mentoring, and fostering team culture across multiple time zones.
• Deep expertise in engineering support frameworks, roadmap planning and team prioritization methodologies.
• Proven experience owning change‑management lifecycles.

Benefits

• 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.

Equal Opportunity

Alpaca is proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace dedicated to hiring a diverse workforce.