# Director of Data

Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. 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. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 40

- **Id**: 3600816
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/alpaca-director-of-data-2>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: inferred_payroll_markers
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-01T12:52:08Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-01T12:52:08Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5763
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance, Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 3826
- **Name**: Alpaca
- **Domain**: alpaca.markets
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/alpaca>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.625
- **Repost share**: 0.125
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 54
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Technologies

- **Airflow** — Optional: no
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **Google GKE** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Presto** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Redpanda** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Trino** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T08:28:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 54
- **Reasons**: seen:3, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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