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DevOps Team Lead, Core Foundation

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$82,000–$138,000
◆ 8/10 cryptodevtechDevOps Engineer
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About this role

Join Alpaca as a DevOps Team Lead to manage a globally distributed team, focusing on critical infrastructure initiatives in a dynamic and diverse environment.

Description

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, totaling 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.

Responsibilities

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. You will manage a talented, globally distributed team of engineers responsible for Heavy Compute, Core Networking, Stateful Data, Observability, and Cloud/Physical Infrastructure.

Things You Get To Do:

  • 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 around 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.
  • Support Frameworks & Methodologies: Design, implement, and refine robust support workflows, agile planning methodologies, and deployment/rollout strategies to ensure operational excellence.
  • On-Call & Incident Management: Manage and optimize the global on-call rotation to ensure team well-being while maintaining high availability.
Requirements

Who you are (must-haves):

  • Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, DevOps Lead, or Site Reliability Engineering Lead, with a track record of successfully managing globally distributed teams.
  • Exceptional people management skills, with a deep 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.
  • Extensive experience managing Incident Management lifecycles and running sustainable, global on-call rotations.
  • Incredibly strong communication and organizational skills.
  • A solid technical background in modern DevOps/SRE ecosystems, including Kubernetes (GKE), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Relational Databases (PostgreSQL), and Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos).
  • A strategic mindset capable of navigating shifting priorities.
Conditions & Benefits

How We Take Care of You:

  • 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.
Job Details
Salary$82,000–$138,000
LocationRemote
AI Score★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10
PostedApr 17, 2026 (125d ago)
Tags & Skills
cryptodevtechDevOps Engineerremote
Tech Stack
KubernetesTerraformPostgreSQLPrometheusGrafanaThanos
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