Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer (CAMLO) - Canada

Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. 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 9 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 top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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: As the DevOps Team Lead for our Core Foundation pod, you will lead the "engine room" of Alpaca’s most critical infrastructure initiatives. You will manage a talented, globally distributed team of engineers (spanning APAC, EMEA, and AMER) responsible for Heavy Compute, Core Networking, Stateful Data, Observability, and Cloud/Physical Infrastructure. This is a leadership and operations-first role . While you need a solid technical background to guide the team and understand our stack, we are not looking for an individual contributor to be in the weeds of the tech. Instead, we need a masterful planner, communicator, and people manager. You will establish robust support frameworks, orchestrate complex rollouts, manage incident response, and ensure the seamless delivery of our highest-priority yearly infrastructure and architectural evolution initiatives. Things You Get To Do: People Tech Leadership: Lead, mentor, and foster a healthy, high-performing globally distributed engineering team. Prioritization Planning: Own the execution and delivery of highly critical, complex yearly roadmap items centered around large-scale foundational infrastructure upgrades, high availability, and platform resilience. Change Management Ownership: Own and drive the change management processes across engineering and product domains. You will orchestrate the smooth delivery of major systemic changes, ensuring alignment, mitigating friction, and breaking down silos between diverse technical groups to deliver cohesive infrastructure solutions. Support Frameworks Methodologies: Design, implement, and refine robust support workflows, agile planning methodologies, and deployment/rollout strategies to ensure operational excellence. On-Call Incident Management: Manage and optimize the global on-call rotation to ensure team well-being while maintaining high availability. Lead incident response (via Rootly), establishing clear communication, rapid resolution processes, and blameless post-mortems. Who you are (must-haves): Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, DevOps Lead, or Site Reliability Engineering Lead, with a track record of successfully managing globally distributed teams. Exceptional people management skills, with a deep focus on coaching, mentoring, and fo ... (truncated, view full listing at source)