The posting explicitly states 'Remote - Americas' in the scope and 'Our team is 100% distributed and remote.' Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago are in the Americas and UTC-5/UTC-4 overlaps with US business hours. No work authorization, language, timezone, or residency restrictions are stated. The target user can work remotely from the Caribbean within the permitted Americas scope.
“Remote - Americas” Geographic scope — Americas / AMER / Western Hemisphere — includes the anglophone Caribbean.
“Remote - Americas” Geographic scope — Stated location restriction is Americas, which includes the anglophone Caribbean.
“Our team is 100% distributed and remote.” Geographic scope — Explicitly confirms distributed remote work with no geographic constraints within the stated Americas scope.
“Our team is 100% distributed and remote.” Physical presence — No physical presence or office requirement; fully remote role.
“We're 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!” Work authorization — Global team culture indicates no work authorization barriers; no sponsorship language present.
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 10 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 $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.
We're 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'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.
Your Role: We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help design and build the next generation of our Data Platform as we continue to scale to larger customers and new jurisdictions. At Alpaca , Data Engineering encompasses financial transactions, customer data, API logs, system metrics, augmented data, and third-party systems that impact decision making for both internal and external stakeholders. We process hundreds of millions of events daily, and this number continues to grow as we onboard new customers and products.
We prioritize open-source technologies in our data stack while leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the foundation for our data infrastructure. This spans batch and stream ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers for BI/Reporting, AI/agent interfaces (MCP), and external third-party sinks. We also oversee data experimentation, cataloging, and monitoring/alerting systems.
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