About the company
Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts. Backed by $400 million in funding, with a team of 400+ globally distributed members.
Responsibilities
- Implement, operate, and tune DLP across SaaS, email, endpoints, and collaboration tools
- Triage and work DLP alerts — determine what fired, why, whether it is real, and what to do next
- Handle false positives and tune rules to reduce recurring noise
- Respond to user accidents and data mishandling: educate, correct course, and document
- Engage employees who share PII or sensitive data in the wrong systems
- Mature data classification and align DLP controls to sensitivity levels
- Build and improve detections and monitoring for data movement risk across Google, Slack, cloud, source code
- Work with People/HR, Legal, Compliance, Engineering, and IT on data mishandling
- Partner with the Cyber GRC Lead on higher-severity Insider Risk and data loss cases
- Assess risk from unauthorized AI tooling and sensitive data exposure
- Support audits and regulatory asks tied to DLP and data handling
Requirements
- 3+ years in DLP, data protection, or adjacent security work with real alert volume
- Hands-on experience implementing and tuning DLP in SaaS and/or endpoint environments
- Comfortable triaging alerts, deciding severity, and knowing when to escalate
- Solid understanding of data classification, PII handling, and common data exfiltration paths
- Working knowledge of SIEM and log analysis (ELK/Elastic, Splunk)
- Familiarity with NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and privacy regulations (GDPR, APPI)
- Strong written communication
- High integrity and discretion
- Ability to work across People/HR, Legal, Compliance, Engineering, and IT
Conditions
- 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