Wealthfront
Software Engineer – DevOps Platform
Palo Alto, CA
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The bottom of this range ($150,000) is below the Level I prevailing wage of $152,797. An H-1B cannot be filed below the prevailing wage, so an offer at the floor of this band could not be sponsored as posted.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,075 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- Ensure that mission critical services operate reliably by triaging and fixing operational issues in linux environments as an on-call engineer, participating in post-mortems, and implementing improvements to prevent future issues.
- Be involved in key decisions regarding the evolution of our infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Help manage our server hardware in our physical data centers which may occasionally include travel to our Bay Area or New Jersey data centers for onsite projects.
- About Wealthfront Here at Wealthfront, our mission is to create a financial system that favors people, not institutions.
- We do this by leveraging technology to build powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-use financial products that help modern investors grow and manage their money.
- If you're inspired to help us reshape the financial industry as we create our next chapter, let's talk!
- We convey funds to partner banks who accept and maintain deposits, provide the variable interest rate, and provide access to FDIC pass-through insurance.
- Encourage you to lead impactful projects which match your professional goals.
Compensation
- $150,000 - $189,000 plus equity and a discretionary bonus.
- Support your professional development by providing feedback during weekly 1:1s and during our bi-annual reviews.
Benefits
- A zero-commission Stock Investing Account with 50+ handpicked collections that help DIY investors discover new companies and make smarter investing decisions.
- Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- Tax-Loss Harvesting benefits vary depending on the client's entire tax and investment profile.
Company info
- Maintain our core infrastructure by writing software to automate application deployment, configure our infrastructure, and manage critical services such as our databases.
- Design, implement, and deploy internal tools and services to accelerate productivity of the wider Engineering team and enable direct ownership of operations.
Equal opportunity
- For more information please visit www.wealthfront.com.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
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