Lead Systems Engineer

Job Description

• DriveWealth Technologies is building a world-class ultra low latency infrastructure team responsible for designing, architecting, testing, and deploying one of the world's most bleeding-edge electronic trading tech stacks. This team drives the company's technology transition from cloud-based infrastructure services to extremely performant bare metal platforms, which will be co-located with the major trading venues in all major global geographies.

Qualifications

• Experience with ultralow latency compute and storage technologies from major vendors such as Dell, HPe, Lenovo, Supermicro, ICC, Ciara, EMC, and Pure • Comprehensive expertise in all stages of the compute infrastructure equipment lifecycle: architecture, design, engineering, testing, sourcing, build design, deployment automation, configuration management, support operations, and observability monitoring • Proficiency in testing, benchmarking, documenting, and differentiating CPU architectures (Intel and AMD), system bus architectures (e.g., CXL), and accelerator technologies (GPU, TPU, FPGA, RDMA, SmartNICs, kernel bypass driver stacks) • Experience developing, defining, testing, and documenting baseline configurations for high-performance system BIOS, focusing on system power and cooling optimization and multi-thread management and optimization • Expertise in developing, defining, testing, and documenting baseline configurations for high-performance Linux operating systems, including deployment and application-specific performance tuning for ultra-low latency process optimization and trade execution • Hands-on experience with compute workload virtualization technologies spanning VMs, containers, and function-as-a-service platforms, leveraging solutions like VMWare + Tanzu, Red Hat Openshift, and Kubernetes • Proficiency in developing, defining, testing, and documenting baseline configurations for ultra-low latency storage technologies, encompassing block, file, and object storage, both physical and software-defined • Experience developing and maintaining monitoring and observability toolsets and product baselines (e.g., logs, alerts, performance telemetry) • Experience in selecting and implementing system build and deployment toolchains, along with configuration management systems (e.g., Ansible, Salt stack), for automating system deployments and managing infrastructure configurations • A significant part of DriveWealth's technology stack operates on AWS. Therefore, the ideal candidate should have relevant experience working with major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to procure, configure, and manage compute infrastructure across various form factors such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Container as a Service (CaaS), and Function as a Service (FaaS).

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options • Mental Health and family planning services • Unlimited paid time off with ten observed holidays • 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents • Pre-tax commuter benefits • $2,500 each year to invest in continued education and personal development • $75 a month in fitness and wellness reimbursement • Company-provided phone • Hybrid work experience that allows for flexibility • For in-office employees, a daily lunch stipend, unlimited snacks, and engaging office space in the Financial District