Monitoring and Observability Architect, DriveWealth
$220-240k
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Cloud-based, API-driven brokerage infrastructure
Open for applications
Cloud-based, API-driven brokerage infrastructure
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$220-240k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make investing accessible to anyone, anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- We seek enthusiastic professionals to contribute diverse perspectives and experiences to our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform
- 7+ years of experience in observability engineering or a related role
- Deep expertise in Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, and Sumo Logic
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Splunk, ServiceNow, Dynatrace, ScienceLogic, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor
- Experience with Corvil appliance and FIX decoders
- Experience building CI/CD-integrated observability pipelines
- Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform to manage alerts, dashboards, and integrations
- Strong understanding of observability frameworks, especially OpenTelemetry (OTEL), and ability to align solutions with developer experience, compliance, and cost control
- Hands-on experience with observability in Kubernetes environments (Helm, operators, native tooling) and monitoring EC2/VMs, on-prem systems, and AWS services
- Proven ability to build and implement application metric streaming frameworks
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
What the job involves
- As a Monitoring and Observability Architect, you will lead our observability infrastructure's design, implementation, and optimization
- This role is critical to ensuring our software applications and systems' performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness
- You'll work cross-functionally to integrate tools like Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, Sumo Logic, and CloudWatch while balancing technical excellence with budget-conscious solutions
- Develop and execute scalable, cost-effective observability strategies for cloud and on-prem systems using tools such as Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, and Sumo Logic
- Design and maintain secure, high-performance monitoring architectures and dashboards that provide actionable system insights
- Define observability roadmaps that align with business goals, customer needs, and budget constraints
- Integrate and manage monitoring platforms within existing infrastructure, ensuring efficient data retention, optimized queries, and minimal resource overhead
- Implement automation for alerting and remediation to reduce manual intervention and operational costs
- Partner with infrastructure, development, and operations teams to improve system reliability and align observability objectives across the organization
- Evaluate and introduce new monitoring tools and technologies, staying current with industry best practices
- Provide architectural guidance and establish standards for observability implementations with a strong focus on cost optimization and compliance
Our take
Robo-advisory products and fractional share trading have expanded the investment industry's reach, attracting a broader audience than ever before. This shift has necessitated a redesign of the fintech industry's infrastructure to support the growing demand for accessible and efficient investment options.
DriveWealth plays a pivotal role in this transformation by developing APIs that serve over 100 global fintechs, challenger banks, and digital wallets. Its infrastructure enables seamless robo-advisory services and fractional share trading, giving retail investors access to the US markets and offering innovative stock reward programs. Among its partners are notable companies like Revolut, MoneyLion, and Hemista.
As the company continues to grow, it remains focused on scaling its business by enhancing its technology stack, pursuing strategic acquisitions, and expanding its team. And is well on its way to its ultimate goal of providing tools that empower companies to create investment products that are both accessible and convenient for everyone.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$450m
SERIES D
Oct 2020
$56.7m
SERIES C
Total funding: $552.8m
Company benefits
- Health & wellness packages: We’ve built our benefits offering as a holistic package. We provide multiple health insurance carrier options and plans (medical, dental, vision) with access to HSA and/or FSA tax savings tools. We also provide income protection including life insurance, AD&D, short- and long-term disability, as well as extended coverage resources such as fertility benefits and mental wellness resources
- Vacation & time off: To build a successful organization, employees need time away to rest and recharge, so we provide paid time off including paid holidays and unlimited vacation time. We also strongly believe in work-life balance and, therefore, offer fully remote and hybrid work positions based on role requirements
- Professional developmnet: We believe one of the greatest contributions we can make is investing in our employees’ professional development. Therefore, we offer financial support toward continuing education courses, academic coursework, professional conferences, earning professional certifications, and membership fees to professional organizations
Company HQ
Colgate Center, Jersey City, NJ
Leadership
Robert S. Cortright
(Founder)Co-founded FX Solutions (acquired by Francisco Partners) in 2001 and served as CEo for 9 years. They also co-founded En-to-End Technology Projects in 2008.
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