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# Software Engineer, Network

- **Company:** Lever, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $172,000.0 - $228,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Border Gateway Protocol, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Linux, Domain Name System (DNS), Networking Hardware, Internet Protocol Security (IP SEC), Internet Services, Python (Programming Language), Network Configuration and Change Management, Network Architecture, Routing, Network Protocols, OpenVPN, Operational Databases, Remote Access Technology, Ansible, Ruby, Virtual Local Area Networks, Transport Layer Security, Computer Network Technologies, HybridCloud, Firewalls (Computer Science), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Juniper, Git, Build Management, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Palo Alto Networks, Hardware Infrastructure, Software Coding, Terraform
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/wealthfront/93383267-2d57-45d0-bb6a-7d9c5d8b6f3c/apply

## About the Role

* 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, * 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

## Description

As a member of the Networking team, you will play a key role in shaping future network architecture. You operate comfortably across hardware and software boundaries, writing code to automate infrastructure and bringing strategic expertise to designing, implementing, and maintaining systems. You approach Networking problems with a bias towards vendor-agnostic IaC solutions., * 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


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