Monitoring and Observability Architect
DriveWealth is 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.
We seek enthusiastic professionals to contribute diverse perspectives and experiences to our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform. Our culture blends the pace and opportunity of a tech start-up with the impact, stability, and significance of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. We value diversity and inclusion, celebrating the unique differences of our employees as we scale and grow together. We’re guided by operating principles grounded in accountability, teamwork, integrity, and solutions built to scale. Join us!
About the Role
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.
What You’ll Do
- 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
What You’ll Need
- 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
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: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health resources
- Generous paid time off with observed holidays (varies per country)
- Paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents
- Up to $2,500 or local equivalent each year to invest in continued education and personal development
- Up to $900 each year or local equivalent for fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Company-provided phone (varies by country)
- For HQ in-office employees, a daily lunch stipend, unlimited snacks, and engaging office space in the Financial District
- Pre-tax commuter benefits (US only)
- Employer 401K match (US only)
Benefit offerings vary based on country and are subject to change.
Equal Employment Opportunity
To 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 recruiting@drivewealth.com.
Agency Disclaimer
DriveWealth does not accept agency resumes. Please 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.
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