3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own the connector and service integration layer for company-wide AI workflows.
- Design and ship isolated, access-controlled execution environments for agents and higher-autonomy workflows.
- Build reusable platform services, golden paths, and self-service templates for AI development.
- Productize onboarding for developers and non-developers without relying on manual intervention or tribal knowledge.
- Define and enforce standards for agent execution, evaluation loops, and deployment.
- Partner with Security and IT on deployable patterns for higher-risk AI capabilities.
- Own governance controls including access management, audit trails, approval criteria, and deployment boundaries.
- Set reliability, observability, and operational standards for AI infrastructure.
- Serve as the technical escalation point for onboarding and platform issues.
- Turn exception handling and individual heroics into repeatable operational paths.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in software, platform, infrastructure, or adjacent engineering roles.
- Hands-on experience building agentic AI systems such as LLM-powered workflows, tool-calling agents, evaluation loops, or autonomous execution using frameworks such as the Claude SDK, Google Agent Development Kit, or LangGraph.
- Direct experience with GCP and strong experience with APIs, authentication, OAuth, secrets, CLI tooling, and deployment patterns.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code in cloud-native systems.
- Experience implementing AI governance controls including access boundaries, audit logging, approval workflows, and safe deployment standards.
- Preferred qualifications include production agentic systems with external tool access, Google Agent Engine or Vertex AI Agent Builder, Cursor or Claude Code, agent sandboxing and evaluation frameworks, self-service developer platforms, startup experience, and familiarity with fintech or regulated environments.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work across engineering, security, and non-technical stakeholders are required.
Benefits
- Health benefits.
- Competitive salary and stock options are offered, but no base compensation amount is stated.
- One-time USD $500 home-office setup benefit for new hires.
- USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
- The team is globally distributed, with members working from locations around the world.
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About Alpaca
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, self-clearing broker-dealer and a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs providing access to stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto. Alpaca delivers embeddable finance solutions for tokenization, fully paid securities lending, high-yield cash, 24/5 trading, Shariah-compliant investing, and more. Today, Alpaca powers over 9 million brokerage accounts across hundreds of fintechs and institutions in 40+ countries, with over $320M in funding from top investors including Drive Capital, Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Derayah Financial, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Elefund, and Y Combinator.