DevOps Team Lead, Core Foundation

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 responsible for Heavy Compute, Core Networking, Stateful Data, Observability, and Cloud/Physical Infrastructure.

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.
• 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.

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 fostering team culture across multiple time zones.
• Deep expertise in engineering support frameworks, roadmap planning, and team prioritization methodologies.
• Proven experience owning Change Management lifecycles.
• Extensive experience managing Incident Management lifecycles and running sustainable, global on-call rotations.
• Incredibly strong communication and organizational skills.
• A solid technical background in modern DevOps/SRE ecosystems, including Kubernetes (GKE), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Relational Databases (PostgreSQL), and Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos).
• A strategic mindset capable of navigating shifting priorities.

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.