Software Engineer – DevOps Platform

Wealthfront is a financial technology company that builds automated, low-cost financial products to help clients grow and manage their money. The Software Engineer will join the DevOps Platform team to build and maintain infrastructure and core services across physical data centers and cloud environments, automate operations, support reliable production systems, and develop internal tools for engineering productivity.

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