Wealthfront
Senior Software Engineer, Network
$172K–$228K
Palo Alto, CA +3 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 24, 2026
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA
New York City, NY
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA - Education
- BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
About the job
Manage and evolve Wealthfront’s data center, office, and cloud networking through infrastructure automation, architecture, monitoring, and operational support.
What you'll do
- Manage networking and server hardware, topology, and connectivity across physical data centers and cloud environments; shape infrastructure architecture.
- Build network telemetry and observability, and automate network configuration changes and hardware provisioning.
- Provide on-call operational support, resolve incidents, participate in post-mortems, and coordinate with vendors and internet service providers.
What they ask for
- Proficiency with automation tools including Terraform, Ansible, and Chef.
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, or Ruby; experience with configuration management tools such as Git.
- Demonstrated Linux systems experience and experience automating production data center environments, including hardware provisioning, network device configuration, and capacity planning.
- Proficiency with networking protocols such as BGP, MLAG, VLANs, and DNS.
Nice to have
- Data center routing and switching; familiarity with Palo Alto Networks Firewalls or Juniper switches.
- VPN technologies such as OpenVPN, IPSec, or TLS; AWS networking technologies such as Direct Connect, NACLs, Security Groups, or VPC.
Pay
$172,000 - $228,000 USD base salary
Tools
Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Go, Python, Ruby, Git, Linux
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