Altruist
Staff Network Engineer
Los Angeles, CA · Staff+
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About the role
- If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!
- We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives.
- We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-region AWS network architecture, including transit gateway topology, VPC design, address-space strategy, and routing across production, clearing, and platform environments.
- Design and enforce segmentation to isolate workload, corporate, and partner traffic, ensuring the network layer is delivered as code via Terraform and GitOps.
- Lead the transition to a zero trust / SASE access model, ensuring application-level access and strong device posture for a distributed engineering team.
- Collaborate closely with Security to translate threat models into durable network designs that meet regulated-industry standards and audit requirements.
- Own the partner connectivity estate, managing site-to-site VPNs, BGP peering, and Direct Connect circuits to financial-services counterparties.
- Provide technical leadership by writing standards, reviewing designs across teams, and mentoring engineers to ensure network resiliency.
- Deep AWS networking: VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, Route 53, PrivateLink, NAT and egress patterns, and security group design at scale.
- A security partnership mindset - you treat security requirements as design input, not obstacle, and can hold a technical disagreement with a security engineer and land somewhere better than where either of you started.
- Network integration through an acquisition or enterprise merger - address-space reconciliation and meeting a larger partner's standards.
- Our offices are intentionally designed for comfort, collaboration, and productivity.
Requirements
- 8+ years in network engineering, including 3+ in cloud-native environments.
- You have owned a production network, not just operated tickets against one.
- Strong fundamentals - routing and BGP, IPsec, TLS, DNS, DHCP - and the ability to read a packet capture when a vendor says the problem is on your side.
Nice to have
- Zero trust / SASE experience: ZTNA, secure web gateway, CASB, or device-posture-conditioned access.
- Zscaler, Netskope, or Prisma is a strong plus.
- Terraform and infrastructure as code as your default, plus scripting ability (Python, Bash, or Go) and comfort with cloud APIs.
Compensation
- Los Angeles, CA salary range
- $181,000 - $265,000 USD
- Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation for each employee.
Benefits
- Education - ideally a B.A. / B.S. in Computer Science, Network Engineering, or a related field, but experience and understanding matter just as much.
- Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans (HMO and PPO).
- 401k savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting.
- 16 week paid parental leave after one year of employment.
- Company perks program (includes discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, and travel, etc.).
Company info
- We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all.
- But first, our values Kindness - Kindness doesn't just equal niceness.
- Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it's hard.
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