Wealthfront is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Devops team to build and maintain software that manages the infrastructure and services running in their data centers, which ultimately power all of their products. The goal is to blend system administration and software engineering skills to improve infrastructure automation and standardization.
Requirements
- Extensive experience with running and troubleshooting modern Linux systems and services in production
- 6+ 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
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 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
- Mentor junior members of the team
Other
- Excellent critical thinking and communications skills with a desire to both learn from and educate your peers
- A BS or MS in Computer Science or an Engineering field, or equivalent professional experience
- 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.
- Mentor junior members of the team
