Software Engineer – DevOps Platform

Wealthfront is a company focused on creating a financial system that favors people, not institutions. They are seeking a Software Engineer to join their DevOps Platform team, where the role involves blending Linux system administration and software engineering skills to build and maintain infrastructure and core services.

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

Requirements:

• A 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