Senior Systems Engineer, Network

Wealthfront

Senior Systems Engineer managing networking and server hardware to maintain critical financial systems. Collaborating across teams in a tech-driven environment focusing on automation and infrastructure-as-code.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSChefCloudDNSFirewallsGoLinuxPythonRubySwitchingTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Provide you with a mentor who who will support you in your onboarding journey
Encourage you to lead impactful projects that match your professional goals
Support your professional development by providing feedback during weekly 1:1s and our bi-annual reviews
Provide autonomy so you can be a happy and successful member of our team

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Hard Skills & Tools

routingswitchingLinux systemsnetwork automationnetwork protocolsPalo Alto Networks FirewallsJuniper switchesVPN technologiesAWS Networkingautomation technology

Soft Skills

communicationorganizational