Senior Software Engineer, Network

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.

About The Role

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.

As a key member of the Infrastructure team, you will:

• 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, The Cash Account, which is not a deposit account, is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“Wealthfront Brokerage”), Member FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. References to the APY for the Cash Account are to the APY paid by insured depository institutions that participate in our Cash Sweep Program (the “Program Banks”). Wealthfront Brokerage sweeps cash balances to Program Banks, where it earns the variable APY. Wealthfront Brokerage partners with Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC, to offer certain checking features for the Cash Account. Wealthfront Brokerage also has a relationship with UMB Bank, National Association, Member FDIC, which may allow certain Cash Accounts to opt into a limited-purpose account number and UMB Bank routing and transit number which enables checking features like bill pay, direct deposits and more. Wealthfront Brokerage and Wealthfront Advisers are not affiliated with Green Dot Bank or UMB Bank. Fees and Eligibility requirements may apply to certain checking features, please see the Deposit Account Agreement for details.

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 Brokerage Account is a self-directed brokerage account offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC, Member of FINRA/SIPC. Clients are responsible for evaluating their investment opportunities and risks and making investment decisions. Investment management and advisory services-which are not FDIC insured-are provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC (“Wealthfront Advisers”), an SEC-registered investment adviser.

Software Engineering, Network Operations Center, Financial Systems, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Systems Maintenance, Automation, Computer Networks, Computer Programming, Network Architecture/Engineering, * 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

Strong candidate may also have:

• 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

• Provide you with a mentor who 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

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

Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!

About Wealthfront

Here at Wealthfront, our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions. We do this by leveraging technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products that help modern investors grow and manage their money.

We started with the ambition to transform the investment advisory industry when we pioneered automated investing in 2011. By automating strategies typically reserved for the wealthy, we unlocked access to high quality investment advice for a digitally-native generation that was underserved by traditional institutions. Since then, we’ve expanded to a full suite of products designed to help our clients save, spend, invest, and borrow for all of their goals, including:

• A Cash Account that, through our program banks, offers one of the highest annual percentage yields on uninvested cash in the industry, while providing instant and secure access to your money with no account fees and a full suite of checking features.
• Multiple automated investing portfolios managed for you and tailored for long-term wealth building across various financial needs, including general investing, retirement, family wealth management, and more. Our taxable investing accounts are designed to unlock tax savings through sophisticated strategies like fixed income, tax-loss harvesting, and direct indexing-which we offer at industry-leading low costs and accessible minimums.
• A zero-commission Brokerage Account with 8000+ stocks and ETFs that’s designed to give DIY investors an incredibly easy way to get started investing. Plus, with our Cash Account, they can earn a high yield (from program banks) until the minute they’re ready to invest.
• A digital-first mortgage experience designed to reduce costs, remove unnecessary friction, and aim to offer rates consistently below the national average.

Our award-winning products have attracted over 1.5 million funded clients who trust us with more than $100 billion of their hard earned savings on our platform-and we’re far from done. If you’re inspired to help us reshape the financial industry as we create our next chapter, let’s talk!