Alpaca
Senior AI Platform Engineer
Remote - North America (EST) · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 11 days ago
GCPKubernetesDevOpsPlatform EngineeringOAuthMachine LearningSparkLLMsAgentic AILangGraphA/B TestingCommunication
About the role
- This is not classical ML pipelines, but the emerging stack of LLM-powered agents, tool use, evaluation loops, and autonomous workflow execution.
- You should know this space well enough to make opinionated decisions about execution patterns, isolation boundaries, and what "safe and reliable" actually means for agents with real tool access.
- This is a startup-inside-a-scaleup role.
Responsibilities
- As Senior AI Platform Engineer, you will own the technical capability layer that makes that possible.
- 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, including isolation boundaries and access controls.
- Build reusable platform services, golden paths, and self-service templates that reduce setup friction for teams building on AI.
- Partner with Security and IT to ship deployable patterns for higher-risk AI capabilities.
- Own the AI governance layer: access controls, audit trails, approval criteria, and deployment boundaries for agentic workflows.
Requirements
- 8+ years in software, platform, infrastructure, or adjacent engineering roles.
- Direct experience with GCP.
- Strong experience with APIs, auth, OAuth, secrets, CLI tooling, and deployment patterns.
- Cloud-native systems experience with containers, orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code.
- You know when to move fast and when to slow down.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, security, and non-technical stakeholders.
- 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.
- You have strong opinions on how these tools fit into a real engineering workflow.
Compensation
- USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Benefits
- Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
Company info
- 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.
- Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
- 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.
- Our Team Members:
- We're a dynamic team of 380+ 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.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
This listing is sourced directly from Alpaca's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.