Senior Systems Engineer, Wealthfront
Network
$172-228k
Plus equity and a discretionary bonus
Automated investment management
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Automated investment management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$172-228k
Plus equity and a discretionary bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a financial system that favors people, not institutions.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a candidate that operates comfortably across hardware and software boundaries, bringing strategic expertise to designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure
- 6+ years of experience with routing and switching in data centers
- 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
- Experience with Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Juniper switches
- Experience with VPN technologies, like OpenVPN, IPSec, TLS
- Experience with AWS Networking technologies like Direct Connect, NACLs, Security Groups, VPC, etc
- Proficiency with automation technology including Chef, Ansible, and Terraform
- Proficiency with at least one language such as Ruby, Go, or Python and configuration management tools such as Git
- Excellent communications and organizational skills
- BS or MS in Engineering or Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer 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
- This candidate will play a key role in shaping future network architecture
- 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
Our take
Wealthfront's platform takes the hassle and stress out of investing, financial planning, borrowing, and saving with automated services and financial advice. Its robo-advisor allows customers to set a financial limit on their accounts, anything above the limit is moved into an investment account or another account chosen by the customer.
Indeed, it has some similarities to round-up apps like Acorn, which round up purchases and put the spare change into savings. There are other companies working on robo-advisors too, such as Morgan Stanley and Betterment.
Nonetheless, with an impressive and steadily increasing list of clients, and more than $50B of assets under its management, Wealthfront achieved Unicorn status in September 2022. Now it is diversifying its offerings, branching into high-interest checking accounts and investment advice and reportedly seeking a valuation of up to $2.05B in its upcoming IPO, a move that puts the company in a strong position for even more growth.
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Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2018
$75m
SERIES E
Oct 2014
$64m
SERIES D
Total funding: $204.5m
Company benefits
- Lunch and snacks on the house: Enjoy lunches, snacks, coffee and stipends to go out to lunch with coworkers.
- More tools in your toolbox: Join one of our affinity groups, attend leadership trainings and receive 1:1 mentorship. We give team members a quarterly learning stipend so we can all continue to grow and improve.
- Commuting made easy: We’re a short walk from the Palo Alto Caltrain and all employees receive a Caltrain pass. Our co-working space in San Francisco is great for days when you need to work from the city. An additional transportation stipend and relocation bonuses make getting to the office a breeze.
- Prioritize Wellness: Stay happy and healthy however you choose with our monthly wellness reimbursement. You define what wellness means for you — a massage, running sneakers, or dance classes? It’s your call.
- Work/life balance (no, really): We have flexible working hours, a discretionary time off policy and offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave (both parents). We work hard, but we rejuvenate too.
- Your health matters: We provide comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage for you and your family, including HSA contributions for high deductible plans.
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Dan Carroll
(Founder & CSO)They studied Finance and Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona before using this expertise to co-found Wealthfront in December 2008.
David Fortunato
(CEO)David has been at Wealthfront since 2009, joining the company as CTO. He then became the President in 2019 and CEO in 2021.
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