DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices. Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.
There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!
About the Role
As a seasoned Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, manage, and scale our high-performance computing environments. This role bridges the gap between traditional system
administration and modern platform engineering, focusing on reliability, automation, and the stringent security requirements of the financial services industry. You will be responsible for a
hybrid ecosystem that spans AWS cloud and on-premise systems, ensuring 99.99% uptime for mission-critical services and transactions.
What You’ll Do
- Linux Systems Engineering: Design and manage high-performance Linux environments including Ubuntu, RHEL, or Amazon Linux. Focus on tuning for low- latency financial applications and system-level hardening
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, treating infrastructure as a software project with version control
and peer reviews - Hybrid Networking: Manage connectivity between cloud environments and on-premise systems, focusing on secure VPC design, VPNs, and routing
- On-Premise Management: Manage physical switches, routers, and firewalls, with an understanding of multicast, VLANs, and interface aggregation
- CI/CD & Release Engineering: Build and optimize deployment pipelines to ensure system updates, patches, and application code are deployed safely and frequently
- Observability & Reliability: Implement comprehensive monitoring (using Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana) to track system SLIs/SLOs and implement automated alerting or self-
healing scripts - Container Platform Management: Support and scale Docker / Podman environments, focusing on pod networking and container runtimes
- Infrastructure Security: Implement "shift-left" security, including OS-level hardening (SELinux, AppArmor), automated vulnerability scanning, and IAM policy refinement
What You’ll Need
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or a related field
- Systems Expertise: 3+ years of experience in Linux Administration or Infrastructure Engineering
- System Internals: Deep knowledge of system performance profiling (e.g., top, iostat, strace) and comfort with Linux system fundamentals (i.e. Systemd, LVM, and Cron)
- Automation Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure and system automation. Bash and/or Python experience for custom tooling as required
- Cloud & Networking Fundamentals: Hands-on experience with AWS Networking fundamentals (VPCs, Routing Tables, and Nat Gateways). Solid understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, and routing protocols like BGP or OSPF
- Container Runtime: Experience with container runtimes in a Production environment (Docker / Podman, Docker Compose). Kubernetes experience is a plus
- Problem Solving: Ability to perform root-cause analysis on complex distributed systems
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor an employment Visa at this time.
Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Required)
- Compliance Knowledge: Experience working within regulated environments such as SOC2, or FINRA
- High-Availability Architecture: Experience building multi-region, failover-capable architectures for mission-critical financial transactions
- SDLC Architecture: Architecting deployment pipelines using GitHub actions, familiarity with AWS Secrets Manager for managing sensitive secrets, and other DevOps toolchain
services - Fintech Protocols: Basic understanding of financial messaging or low-latency requirements, such as FIX protocol
- Security & Application Tuning: Experience with WAF, DDoS mitigation strategies, and tuning edge application services such as HAProxy
- Certifications: CompTIA Linux+, RHCSA/RHCE, or AWS SysOps Administrator
Compensation
Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience.
Please note: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.
We do our best work when we’re in the same room. To maintain the speed our partners expect, our New York and Chicago teams work in-office 4 days a week. We’ve found that being physically side-by-side is the only way to solve complex problems in real-time and stay truly accountable to the products we ship. When you’re here, you’re working directly with the people making the decisions. To support that work, we provide competitive compensation, equity, and a 401(k) match. We also offer full insurance coverage, a wellness reimbursement, a company-provided phone, and a personal development allowance. Finally, we value the time you spend away from the office with generous PTO, observed holidays, and extended leave.
How We Think About AIWe leverage AI to work smarter and move faster. We seek AI curious talent who are proactive about using emerging tools to increase signal quality, reduce friction and improve outcomes to deliver product faster, provide better service to our partners, and to streamline processes. Your ability to leverage our internal tools and technology to drive results is as important to us as your core domain expertise.
CompensationPay is generally based upon the level, complexity, responsibility, location and job duties / requirements of the specific position. We then source candidates with the requisite skills, expertise, education, training, and experience. If you are selected for an interview, please feel welcome to speak to a recruiter about our compensation philosophy and other available benefits. This role is eligible for base, bonus, equity, 401(k) match, and heavily subsidized benefits and perks.
Equal Employment OpportunityTo build technology and products that are used and loved by people and solve real-world problems, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us at [email protected].
Agency DisclaimerDriveWealth does not accept agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, employees, or any other organization location. DriveWealth is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Top Skills
What We Do
Over the past ten years, DriveWealth has been breaking down the barriers between global investors and U.S. markets and improving the financial lives of people that have been traditionally underserved and underbanked. We’ve built patent-pending technology to fractionalize US equities and were the first to receive a license to do so in 2015.
Why Work With Us
DriveWealth is growing quickly, and we need your help! This year we plan to getting close to doubling our headcount. We've raised over $100M so far from seasoned fin-tech investors Route 66, Point 72, and Raptor.
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