Platform DevOps Engineer — Automate Core Infra

Wealthfront; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

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, blending Linux admin and software engineering to build and maintain infrastructure in data centers and the cloud. The role emphasizes automation, testing, and standardization across services in AWS and on-prem environments.

You will work on deploying and maintaining core services, databases, and automation tools, with opportunities to influence infrastructure evolution and mentorship for onboarding engineers.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or an Engineering field.
• Experience with running and troubleshooting modern Linux systems and services in production.
• 2+ years of experience developing reliable production-grade software in Java, Go, or other similar languages.
• Proficiency with at least one automation technology such as Terraform, Chef, or Puppet.
• Successfully designed and deployed mission-critical complex distributed systems.
• Excellent critical thinking and communications skills with a desire to both learn from and educate your peers.

Responsibilities

• Maintain our core infrastructure by writing software to automate application deployment, configure our infrastructure, and manage critical services such as our databases.
• Ensure that mission critical services operate reliably by triaging and fixing operational issues in linux environments as an on-call engineer, participating in post-mortems, and implementing 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

Skills

Java

Go

Linux

Terraform

Chef

Puppet

Education

BS or MS in CS or Engineering

Job description

Wealthfront is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Devops Platform team, blending Linux admin and software engineering to build and maintain infrastructure in data centers and the cloud. The role emphasizes automation, testing, and standardization across services in AWS and on-prem environments.

You will work on deploying and maintaining core services, databases, and automation tools, with opportunities to influence infrastructure evolution and mentorship for onboarding engineers.