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Sr. Insider & Data Risk Analyst at Alpaca · globalremotely

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.

Things You Get To Do

Own insider risk investigations from triage through closure, including case timelines, containment, escalation, and documented determinations and lessons learned
Mature Alpaca's Insider Risk Management Program, including case management processes, risk tiering, and repeatable workflows
Operate and tune Data Loss Prevention tooling across multiple environments and endpoints, refining rulesets to improve signal and reduce false positives
Mature data classification and align DLP controls to sensitivity levels
Investigate potential data exfiltration, misuse, and policy violations; build and tune detections and monitoring
Investigate misuse and exfiltration risk across source code, Google, AWS, Azure, third party apps, Slack, and trading and platform system access
Partner with People/HR, Legal, Compliance, and IT on sensitive cases (departures, policy violations, data mishandling) with discretion and care
Assess risk from unauthorized AI/agentic tooling and sensitive data exposure through approved and unsanctioned AI tooling
Leverage Agentic AI to continue maturation of Insider risk program
Lead insider and data risk assessments and maintain risk registers
Support internal and external audits and regulatory requirements
Contribute insider risk and data handling content to the security awareness and training program
Serve as the insider risk escalation point for the Security team and mentor others on investigations and casework
Monitor developments in insider risk, data protection, privacy, and financial services regulation.

Who You Are (Must Haves)

Highly organized with strong attention to detail; comfortable in a fast paced, high demand, distributed environment
4+ years in insider risk, DLP operations, digital forensics, or security investigations, including hands on case management on sensitive personnel matters
Hands on experience leading investigations and case management with discretion, integrity, and sound judgment on sensitive personnel matters
Hands-on experience operating DLP in SaaS and endpoint environments and tuning rules to improve signal quality
Experience with workflow automation, AI, or SOAR platforms for alert triage and case orchestration
Solid understanding of data classification and data governance
Working knowledge of SIEM and log analysis (e.g., ELK/Elastic, Splunk) to support investigations
Familiarity with frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and privacy regulations (GDPR, APPI)
Strong written communication, able to draft clear investigation reports, case documentation, and executive summaries
High integrity and discretion when handling confidential and sensitive information
Ability to work across People/HR, Legal, Compliance, Engineering, and IT

Who You Might Be (Nice to Haves)

Academic background, personal interest, or real world experience in fintech, financial services, or trading platforms
Digital forensics or eDiscovery experience
Experience with UEBA or insider risk detection platforms
Scripting or automation for detections and data analysis (e.g., Python, SQL)
Experience with major cloud platforms
Experience supporting or observing SOC 2, ISO 27001, or regulatory audits
Certifications such as GCFA, GCFE, CISSP, CISM, CIPP, CFE, or similar
Interest in AI related data risk (e.g., data exposure through AI tools) and using AI tooling to work more efficiently
Familiarity with financial services regulatory expectations (e.g., SEC/FINRA, broker dealer controls) and multi jurisdiction privacy requirements
Experience in security operations or incident response