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 Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you won’t just be "keeping the lights on." You will be an engineering force responsible for the architecture, scalability, and self-healing capabilities of our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform.
This role is centered on reducing toil through engineering. You will design and develop internal SRE platforms, automate complex workflows, and ensure our Kubernetes-based ecosystem can handle the demands of global financial markets. While this role includes critical on-call responsibilities to support our 24/7 global operations, your primary mission is to build and modernize systems that make manual intervention obsolete.
What You’ll Do
- Engineering & Automation: Design and develop internal tools and SRE platforms to eliminate repetitive tasks (toil) and improve developer velocity.
- Infrastructure as Code: Architect and maintain modular, reusable IaC using Terraform and manage GitOps workflows via ArgoCD.
- Observability & Reliability: Implement OpenTelemetry standards and the Grafana stack (Alloy, Loki, Tempo, Mimir) to provide deep insights into system health. Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets.
- Platform Governance: Review software architecture and Kubernetes metrics to ensure high availability, capacity planning, and cost-optimization across AWS regions.
- Incident Engineering: Lead incident response, perform complex root-cause analysis (RCA), and champion a blameless post-mortem culture.
- Collaboration: Partner with engineering teams to foster the adoption of new tools, security standards, and reliability best practices.
What You'll Need
- Linux & Networking Mastery: Proficient in Linux administration with a deep understanding of the TCP/IP stack, OSI model, DNS, and network troubleshooting.
FinTech Background: Experience working in highly regulated financial environments or with FIX/API connectivity. - Production Kubernetes: Hands-on experience managing production-grade clusters, including RBAC, autoscaling, Helm, and multi-cluster patterns.
- Cloud Native Expertise (AWS): Strong grasp of AWS core services, security, and high-availability patterns. Proficiency with boto3 and AWS CLI for automation.
- Modern CI/CD & GitOps: Experience building secure, automated delivery pipelines and operating GitOps workflows (ArgoCD).
- Code Proficiency: Strong scripting and development skills in Python or Golang, along with Bash and Ansible.
- Security Mindset: Experience with secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and securing the software supply chain.
- AI & Prompt Engineering: Familiarity with using LLMs, Public MCPs, or Bedrock Agent Core to enhance SRE workflows.
- Data & Middleware: Experience managing Kafka, MQ, SQS, or orchestration tools like Airflow and Rundeck.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
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: at this time, we are not able to hire in all states.
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.
Work AuthorizationApplicants must possess the legal right to work in the country where the position is located at the time of application. DriveWealth requires all employees to provide original documentation verifying their work authorization on or before their first day of employment.
For US-based roles: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship. DriveWealth does not provide visa sponsorship or support for employment authorization, including transfers, at this time. Offers of employment are strictly contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the Company.
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 products 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 on 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 based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
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.
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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