Wealthfront
Software Engineer – DevOps Platform
$150K–$189K
Palo Alto, CA +3 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 3, 2025
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA
New York City, NY
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- At least 2 years developing reliable production-grade software; no years specified for other experience.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science or an Engineering field.
About the job
Build and operate Wealthfront’s infrastructure and core services across physical data centers and AWS by developing automation, internal tools, and reliable production systems.
What you'll do
- Automate application deployment, infrastructure configuration, and critical services such as databases.
- Troubleshoot Linux production issues on call, participate in post-mortems, and improve service reliability.
- Build internal tools and services, manage data-center hardware, and contribute to infrastructure decisions.
What they ask for
- Experience running and troubleshooting modern Linux systems and services in production.
- At least 2 years developing reliable production-grade software in Java, Go, or similar languages.
- Proficiency with at least one automation technology such as Terraform, Chef, or Puppet.
- Experience designing and deploying mission-critical complex distributed systems.
Pay
$150,000 - $189,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Linux, AWS, MariaDB, NGINX, Jenkins, Chef, Go, Java
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