Senior Technical Product Manager: Infrastructure and Platforms - Alpaca

Who We Are

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.

As a licensed financial services company, Alpaca serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 10 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team comprises diverse, experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals dedicated to opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and its robust infrastructure.

Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members

We are a dynamic team of 400+ 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 seek 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

As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will build Alpaca's internal infrastructure and developer platform as a product. You will own the product definition and platform maturity strategy, intake, backlog, and multi-quarter roadmap for Platform & Infrastructure. You will establish the framework so DevOps, Platform, and Infrastructure teams, and their customers, know what to prioritize next, partnering directly with the VP of Engineering.

Alpaca is building infrastructure for programmable finance at a global scale, supporting new countries, global markets, centralized products, and products deployable in any region. This role ensures that this work has a dedicated product owner, focusing on platform maturity, CI/CD, cost efficiency and attribution, and proactively addressing infrastructure dependencies that product engineering might otherwise discover too late.

Things You Get To Do

• Own infrastructure as a product. Define and evolve a platform maturity model in the open. Your internal customers are Alpaca engineers. The north star aligns with the Platform & Infrastructure charter: self-serve infrastructure on paved golden paths – enabling any engineer to build, ship, authenticate, observe, and scale a service without filing a ticket. You will be the product owner for Foundational Infrastructure within the TPM team, focusing on efficiency (cost attribution / chargeback) and KPIs that demonstrate platform ease of consumption (full CI/CD delivery and adoption).
• Build the rails for monthly delivery. Teams already allocate capacity for on-call, support, and upgrades. Your role focuses on discovery and delivery. You will make the next pull from a living roadmap obvious, keep the central backlog and intake sane, and surface platform and infrastructure dependencies before they become surprises on other teams' roadmaps.
• Drive platform maturity until maintenance windows disappear. In the short term, you will experience the challenges of coordinating maintenance windows, runbooks, and market-hours constraints, as you cannot eliminate what you haven't operated. The ultimate goal is 24/7 deployability across open and closed markets, globally.
• Make cost a first-class product surface. Work with infrastructure engineering and Finance on attribution, chargeback, and efficiency. This requires technical judgment to understand why a node, a database, or a pipeline costs what it costs. Cost management is one program, not the entire job.
• Raise CI/CD and developer-platform adoption. Full CI/CD delivery and adoption is a stated KPI for this role. Partner with DevOps App (ArgoCD, service mesh, API gateway) and Platform (AuthX, event streaming, DevEx) to ensure golden paths are utilized, not just documented and ignored.
• Make infrastructure portable for global scale. Distinguish between what must remain centralized to serve all of Alpaca and what must be packaged and deployable in new markets Alpaca plans to expand into.

Who You Are (Must-Haves)

• 7+ years as a TPM, product manager technical, or equivalent, with a substantial portion of that time owning infrastructure, platform, or developer experience.
• You have owned a multi-team backlog, intake, and roadmap, and you have run a planning cadence that teams actually use.
• You are technically fluent enough to be an equal partner to senior/staff engineers on compute infrastructure, deployment pipelines (CI/CD), data stores, networking, and cost drivers. While you do not need to write production Terraform, you do need to know when a proposal is hand-wavy.
• You get things done without a reporting line and have influenced platform adoption across many teams.
• You write and operate with crisp scope, clearly defining what this role does not own while leaving no gaps.
• You have worked in a market-hours-sensitive or regulated production environment, or another domain where deploy windows, change risk, and customer trust are real constraints.
• You use AI and automation to remove program toil rather than add tooling.

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves)

• You have stood up a platform-maturity model, paved-path program, or internal developer platform.
• You have eliminated or dramatically reduced maintenance windows or change-freeze culture in a production organization.
• Experience with multi-region or multi-entity infrastructure: packaging a platform so a new region or booking center can be stood up without a hero project.
• Experience with capital markets, brokerage, or other FinTech infrastructure.

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

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

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