<div class="content-intro">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.</div><h3>Role</h3> Lead the team that commands Alpaca's most critical incidents. You will build the function and then keep raising its bar: the severity model, the escalation and communication paths, 24x7 follow-the-sun coverage, and the KPIs that prove it is improving. You will do that across boundaries - with the engineering teams who own the services, with SRE on reliability standards and on-call readiness, with Risk on financial and regulatory materiality, with our partner communications teams on what reaches a customer, and with reliability programme management on what happens after. You will own how well we respond. Not the fix, not the partner communication, and not the reliability standard. Holding that line is a deliberate part of the design and a core part of the job. Things You Get To Do <ul> <li>Build the team and stand up 24x7 command. Recruit and certify Incident Commanders, build a follow-the-sun rotation across APAC, EMEA and AMER with warm handoffs at every regional boundary, and carry a rostered slot yourself. Keep the team sharp between real incidents with game days, tabletop exercises and simulations, and coach them through the live ones. Build a blameless review culture that treats an outlier as a process gap rather than a person's failure.</li> <li>Own the process, and keep raising it. Drive severity maturity with Risk on financial and regulatory materiality - in a regulated brokerage a severity call can also start a reporting clock, so the model has to map cleanly onto those thresholds. Own the escalation path and what happens when a page goes unanswered, agree the thresholds for taking an incident to engineering leadership, and keep the service catalogue and its ownership current - time spent working out who owns a failing service is customer impact.</li> <li>Own both bridges. Your team c

Incident Operations Lead (EMEA/AMER)

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