DevOps Platform Engineer - Cloud & Automation

Wealthfront; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

401K plan

Generous time off

Parental leave

Wellness reimbursements

Professional development

Employee investing discount

Job summary

Wealthfront is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Devops Platform team to blend Linux system administration with software engineering. You will build and maintain infrastructure and core services across data centers and cloud.

Our culture emphasizes automation, testing, and standardization, with a focus on empowering developers to own their systems end-to-end. The role involves on-call responsibilities, designing internal tools, and possible travel to Bay Area or New Jersey data centers.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering field.
• Experience running and troubleshooting modern Linux systems in production.
• 2+ years developing reliable production-grade software in Java or Go.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Chef, or Puppet.
• Successfully designed and deployed mission-critical distributed systems.
• Excellent critical thinking and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain our core infrastructure by writing software to automate application deployment, configure our infrastructure, and manage critical services such as our databases.
• Triage and fix operational issues in Linux environments as an on-call engineer, participate in post-mortems, and implement improvements to prevent future issues.
• Design, implement, and deploy internal tools and services to accelerate productivity of the wider Engineering team and enable direct ownership of operations.
• Help manage our server hardware in our physical data centers which may occasionally include travel to our Bay Area or New Jersey data centers for onsite projects.
• Be involved in key decisions regarding the evolution of our infrastructure.

Job description

Wealthfront is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Devops Platform team to blend Linux system administration with software engineering. You will build and maintain infrastructure and core services across data centers and cloud.

Our culture emphasizes automation, testing, and standardization, with a focus on empowering developers to own their systems end-to-end. The role involves on-call responsibilities, designing internal tools, and possible travel to Bay Area or New Jersey data centers.