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Product Security Engineer

Alpaca

Remote

02.09.2025.

Python AWS Docker Golang Cloud Kubernetes Oauth senior

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and self-clearing broker-dealer, delivering execution and custody solutions for Stocks, ETFs, Options, Cryptocurrencies, and more, and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries, and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as broker-dealers, investment advisors, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges.

Alpaca’s globally distributed team members bring in diverse experiences such as engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals to achieve our Mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are also deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community. We will continue to enhance and improve our award-winning developer-friendly API and the infrastructure behind it.

Our Team Members:

We’re a team of 200+ globally distributed members who love working from our favorite places worldwide. Our team spans the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and more!

We’re looking for candidates eager to join Alpaca’s growing organization, who are excited about our Mission of “Open financial services to everyone on the planet and share our Values of “Stay Curious,” “Have Empathy,” and “Be Accountable.”

Your Role:

We are seeking an experienced Product Security Engineer who can help expand our Security efforts and play a critical role in safeguarding Alpaca’s assets from evolving cyber threats to ensure the security and integrity of our products.

In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the security of Alpaca’s products and infrastructure, protecting our APIs, trading platforms, and customer data from threats. You’ll collaborate closely with our engineering, product, and operations teams to embed security best practices into our development lifecycle, harden our systems, and respond to emerging threats. If you’re excited about security, cutting edge financial tech, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you.

The role requires a deep understanding of Cybersecurity principles, application security, DevSecOps, incident response, cloud security, offensive security, and proactive threat detection with a proven track record of managing security risks and cross functional collaboration. The Security Team is 100% distributed and remote. This role will be reporting directly to the CISO.

Things You Get To Do:

Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps to embed security into our API and platform development lifecycle, working hand-in-hand with our Engineering and Product teams
Perform threat modeling and security reviews to spot risks early and keep our products secure
Identify, triage, and remediate security vulnerabilities in our codebase, infrastructure, and third-party dependencies, and help respond and manage our bug bounty program
Build and tweak automation tools for security testing and monitoring
Participate in security incident response efforts, including investigation, containment, and post-mortem analysis, to ensure rapid resolution and continuous improvement
Harden our cloud systems (Google Cloud, Kubernetes) and products to meet industry standards and protect against evolving threats
Team up with product and DevOps crews to make security seamless without slowing us down
Promote a security-first mindset by providing guidance, training, and documentation to team members on secure coding practices and emerging threats
Assist with compliance audits and assessments as necessary
Conduct security research and contribute to the development of new security tools and techniques.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

Excited about Alpaca’s mission and what we’re building
6-8 years of mixed experience in a security operations, security engineering, product security, and DevSecOps
Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Go, Python etc.) and the ability to review and write secure code
Experience with API security (e.g., OAuth, JWT, WAF, rate limiting)
Experience with cloud security (e.g., Google Cloud, AWS) including DevSecOps and embedding security in the CI/CD pipeline
A strong understanding of how to secure containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
Familiarity with security tools such as static code analyzers, vulnerability scanners, and penetration testing frameworks
Knowledge of common security vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10) and mitigation strategies
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent communication skills and committed to work collaboratively across the Firm
Comfortable thriving in a distributed, remote-first team with asynchronous collaboration across time zones
A curious mindset, empathy for our users and teams, and a commitment to accountability—aligned with Alpaca’s core values of "Stay Curious," "Have Empathy," and "Be Accountable."
Available for on-call rotations and after hour responses as needed

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or a related field
Security related certifications such as CISSP, GIAC, OSCP, CRTO, K8s is a plus
Experience in securing and monitoring APIs
Understanding of financial and privacy regulations
Experience in the financial services industry
Business acumen to be able to balance tradeoffs between stakeholders and technology feasibility and budget constraints