Sr. Insider & Data Risk Analyst

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 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 As Senior Insider & Data Risk Analyst, you will own insider risk investigations and help mature Alpaca's Insider Risk Management Program and Data Loss Prevention capabilities. You will triage and investigate signals across people, devices, identity, and data movement, apply risk tiering and escalation standards, and partner with People/HR, Legal, Compliance, Engineering, and IT on sensitive cases involving departures, policy violations, and data misuse. This role sits at the intersection of insider risk, data protection, privacy, and financial services. Reporting to the Cyber GRC Lead, you will serve as Security's escalation point for insider and data loss cases affecting trading systems, customer data, and proprietary information. This is a practical senior individual contributor role for someone experienced, discreet, and highly organized who can own investigation workflows, translate risk into clear language for leadership, and build durable programs and processes. Prior experience in a regulated or financial services environment is a strong plus.