DevOps Engineer

We’re looking for a Devops Engineer to join our Infrastructure team, where you will build and maintain the infrastructure and services that support Wealthfront’s products and platforms. We are a team of “Generalists with Expertise” who believe strongly in automation and standardization to bring strategic expertise for designing, implementing, maintaining, and improving our infrastructure.
We operate in both physical data centers and AWS cloud environments and leverage open source software such as MariaDB, NGINX, Jenkins, Chef, Kibana, and Grafana to deliver automated infrastructure to our clients and every member of the Engineering team.

As a member of the Infrastructure team, you will:

• Maintain our core infrastructure by automating software deployment, infrastructure configuration, and database cluster management and tuning
• 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 and occasionally 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

This role could be a fit if you have:

• Demonstrated experience with modern Linux systems and at least 2+ years of experience running and troubleshooting applications and services in production
• Familiarity with at least one automation technology such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
• Systems-related software development experience in Java, Python, Go, Ruby, or similar languages
• Excellent communications skills and a desire to both learn from and educate your peers
• Designed complex deployment orchestration workflows for production services and infrastructure
• A BS or MS in Engineering or Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

Once you join, Wealthfront will:

• Pair you with a 1:1 mentor to guide you through our onboarding program
• Encourage you to lead impactful projects which match your professional goals
• Support your professional development by providing feedback during weekly 1:1s and during our bi-annual reviews
• Give you autonomy so you can be a happy and successful member of our team

Estimated annual salary range: $155,000 - $185,500 USD plus equity and a discretionary bonus.Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!
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