Overview
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,
Full job description
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.
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
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
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
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