Senior Software Engineer, Network

Wealthfront Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 172,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship during onboarding

Professional development support

Generous time off

Comprehensive medical benefits

Job summary

Wealthfront Corporation is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for their Infrastructure team in New York City. This role involves managing hardware and networking across data centers and cloud platforms to enhance financial systems.

The ideal candidate will have at least 6 years of experience in routing, switching, and Linux systems automation, paired with strong communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary and a range of benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience with routing and switching in data centers.
• Experience with automating production data center environments.
• Excellent communications and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage networking and server hardware, topology, and connectivity.
• Design and build network telemetry, monitoring, and observability.
• Participate in on-call engineering and operational improvements.

Skills

Routing and switching

Linux systems

Network protocols (BGP, MLAG, VLANs, DNS)

Palo Alto Networks Firewalls

AWS Networking technologies

Automation (Chef, Ansible, Terraform)

Programming (Ruby, Go, Python)

Excellent communications

Education

BS or MS in Engineering or Computer Science

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer 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.

This candidate will play a key role in shaping future network architecture. We are looking for a candidate that operates comfortably across hardware and software boundaries, bringing strategic expertise to designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure.

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

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience with routing and switching in data centers
• 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
• Experience with Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Juniper switches
• Experience with VPN technologies, like OpenVPN, IPSec, TLS
• Experience with AWS Networking technologies like Direct Connect, NACLs, Security Groups, VPC, etc
• Proficiency with automation technology including Chef, Ansible, and Terraform
• Proficiency with at least one language such as Ruby, Go, or Python and configuration management tools such as Git
• Excellent communications and organizational skills
• BS or MS in Engineering or Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience

Benefits

• Provide you with a mentor who will support you in your onboarding journey
• Encourage you to lead impactful projects that match your professional goals
• Support your professional development by providing feedback during weekly 1:1s and our bi-annual reviews
• Provide autonomy so you can be a happy and successful member of our team
• Medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!

Estimated annual salary range: $172,000 - $228,000 plus equity and a discretionary bonus.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value 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.