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Supports the Chief Compliance Officer in executing the firm’s compliance program. Responsibilities include applying FINRA and SEC regulations, monitoring controls, improving processes, maintaining policies and supervisory procedures, reviewing communications, supporting regulatory examinations and filings, conducting branch inspections, and assisting with product governance.

Provide business-oriented legal guidance on U.S. broker-dealer regulation, digital assets, payments, privacy, product launches, marketing, onboarding, regulatory engagement, agreements, policies, and disputes. Monitor SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC developments; conduct legal research; advise cross-functional teams; and manage litigation, arbitration, outside counsel, claims, and discovery.

Own high-impact cross-functional operating constraints from discovery through measurable resolution. Diagnose root causes across domains, design and build process, automation, governance, or organizational solutions, mobilize teams without direct authority, drive adoption, measure outcomes, and establish durable ownership. The role requires systems thinking, analytical rigor, prioritization, executive communication, and sustained implementation to create operating leverage across the company.

Design, build, and operate highly available GCP infrastructure for trading-critical systems. Own Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes and GKE operations, observability, networking, data stores, and message brokers. Build self-service developer platforms, implement SRE practices, manage incidents and postmortems, and participate in a global follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

Manage trading operations, including customer activity surveillance, trade execution monitoring, exception handling, cryptocurrency inventory, cash management, and account reconciliation. Support anti-money laundering investigations, analyze data, improve workflows and tools, and coordinate with internal and external partners. The role requires strong attention to detail, adaptability, independent judgment, effective communication, and weekend availability.

Design, build, and maintain scalable brokerage systems supporting international markets. Develop Go-based backend services, gRPC microservices, React interfaces, and vendor integrations. Collaborate with global engineering teams to support multiple languages, currencies, and markets. Lead regional reliability efforts, act as incident commander, troubleshoot production issues, mentor engineers, and contribute to recruitment and cross-functional initiatives. Participate in on-call support and help ensure proactive 24x7 system stability.

Lead and conduct AML, anti-fraud, and securities fraud investigations; prepare SARs; respond to sanctions and regulatory requests; maintain risk assessments; support audits and regulatory engagements; develop policies, procedures, and monitoring controls; collaborate with stakeholders and compile reports for management and regulators.

As an Operations Reliability Engineer, design and implement automations to eliminate manual tasks in brokerage operations, focusing on efficiency and reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Manage core crypto products, conduct market analysis, liaise with partners, and oversee compliance for regulated crypto infrastructure. Enhance developer experience and operational efficiency.

Leads Alpaca’s global Corporate Actions function across U.S. and international markets. Oversees mandatory and voluntary events, supervisory controls, reconciliations, incident management, exception handling, team performance, and operational risk. Partners with Product, Engineering, Trading, Ledger, Security Master, and Operations teams to improve system synchronization, automation, observability, and scalability. Builds global operating standards across custodians, currencies, tax regimes, depositories, and market conventions while developing team expertise and succession coverage.