Alpaca - Senior Technical Product Manager: Infrastructure and Platforms
Requirements
• 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 to be an equal partner to senior/staff engineers on compute infra, 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. You have influenced platform adoption across many teams. • You write and operate with crisp scope. You can say what this role does not own and still leave no gap. • 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 org. • Multi-region or multi-entity infrastructure: packaging a platform so a new region or booking center can be stood up without a hero project. • 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. • Recruitment Privacy Policy
Responsibilities
• Alpaca is building infrastructure for programmable finance at global scale: new countries, global markets, products that must stay centralized, and products that must be deployable in any region. This seat exists so that work has a product owner — platform maturity, CI/CD, cost efficiency and attribution, and the infrastructure dependencies that product engineering keeps discovering too late. • Things You Get To Do • Own infrastructure as a product. Define and evolve a platform maturity model in the open. Internal customers are Alpaca engineers. The north star matches the Platform & Infrastructure charter: self-serve infrastructure on paved golden paths – any engineer can build, ship, authenticate, observe, and scale a service without filing a ticket. You are the product owner for Foundational Infrastructure inside the TPM team: efficiency (cost attribution / chargeback) and the KPIs that prove the platform is getting easier to consume (full CI/CD delivery and adoption). • Own infrastructure as a product. • Build the rails for monthly delivery. Teams already carve capacity for on-call, support, and upgrades. What remains is discovery and delivery. You make the next pull from a living roadmap obvious. You keep the central backlog and intake sane. You surface platform and infrastructure dependencies before they become surprises on someone else's roadmap. • Build the rails for monthly delivery. • Drive platform maturity until maintenance windows disappear. Short term you will feel the pain of coordinating maintenance windows, runbooks, and market-hours constraints — because you cannot eliminate what you have not operated. The goal is 24/7 deployability across open and closed markets, globally. • Drive platform maturity until maintenance windows disappear. • Make the cost a first-class product surface. Work with infrastructure engineering and Finance on attribution, chargeback, and efficiency. This requires technical judgment: you have to understand why a node, a database, or a pipeline costs what it costs. Cost is one program, not the whole job. • Make the cost a first-class product surface. • Raise CI/CD and developer-platform adoption. Full CI/CD delivery and adoption is a stated KPI for this seat. Partner with DevOps App (ArgoCD, service mesh, API gateway) and Platform (AuthX, event streaming, DevEx) so golden paths get used, not documented and ignored. • Raise CI/CD and developer-platform adoption. • Make infrastructure portable for global scale. Distinguish what must stay centralized to serve all of Alpaca from what must be packaged and deployable in new markets Alpaca will expand to. • Make infrastructure portable for global scale.
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. • Recruitment Privacy Policy
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