Senior Software Engineer, Network
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with Networking expertise to join our Infrastructure team, where you will work with hardware and networking across our data centers, offices, and the cloud to build and maintain critical financial systems. Wealthfront’s Infrastructure team is a team of “Generalists with Expertise” who adhere to the principles of infrastructure-as-code and automation. We operate both physical servers and cloud-based computing, and our network spans both environments.
Responsibilities
- Manage our networking and server hardware, topology, and connectivity in our physical data centers and cloud
- Design and build network telemetry, monitoring, and observability
- Build and maintain an automated change management pipeline to deploy network configuration revisions and provision hardware
- Ensure critical services operate reliably by triaging and fixing operational issues as an on-call engineer, participating in post-mortems and implementing improvements to prevent future issues
- Make and collaborate on key decisions regarding the evolution of our infrastructure, such as our hybrid cloud architecture
- Be responsible for liaising with third parties, vendors and internet service providers as well as traveling to our Bay Area and New Jersey data centers and offices for onsite networking projects
Requirements
- Proficiency with automation technology including Terraform, Ansible, and Chef
- Proficiency with at least one language such as Go, Python, or Ruby and configuration management tools such as Git
- Demonstrated experience with Linux systems
- Experience with automating production data center environments, including hardware provisioning, network device configuration, and capacity planning
- Proficiency with Networking protocols such as BGP, MLAG, VLANs, DNS
- Excellent communications and organizational skills
- BS or MS in Engineering or Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience
Qualifications
- Experience with routing and switching in data centers
- Familiarity with Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Juniper switches
- Background on VPN technologies, like OpenVPN, IPSec, TLS
- Experience with AWS Networking technologies like Direct Connect, NACLs, Security Groups, VPC, etc.
Skills
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Benefits
- Medical, vision, dental, 401K plan
- Generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!
Pay
Estimated annual salary range: $172,000 - $228,000 plus equity and a discretionary bonus.
Schedule
Full-time position.
Company Information
Wealthfront is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Please review our candidate privacy notice. Disclosures: All investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Tax-Loss Harvesting benefits vary depending on the client's entire tax and investment profile. Wealthfront doesn’t provide tax advice. The Cash Account is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“Wealthfront Brokerage”), Member of FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. We convey funds to partner banks who accept and maintain deposits, provide the variable interest rate, and provide access to FDIC pass-through insurance. Investment management and advisory services–which are not FDIC insured–are provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC (“Wealthfront Advisers”), an SEC-registered investment adviser. The checking features offered in the Wealthfront Cash Account are provided by Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC. Fees and Eligibility requirements may apply to certain checking features, please see the Deposit Account Agreement for details. By “award-winning products”, please refer to www.wealthfront.com/reviews for more information. Wealthfront Corporation oversees Total Client Assets and Trusted Clients through Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage. Wealthfront Advisers and Wealthfront Brokerage are wholly owned subsidiaries of Wealthfront Corporation.