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Altruist is a modern custodian and AI-powered platform built exclusively for independent financial advisors, combining a self-clearing brokerage firm with intuitive software for account opening, trading, reporting, and billing. The company operates a regulated broker-dealer and clearing platform on a multi-account, multi-region AWS infrastructure connected to clearing, custody, market-data, and banking partners over dedicated circuits and encrypted tunnels.
As the first dedicated Senior Network Engineer, you will own the complete network architecture and operations for this fintech infrastructure. Your responsibilities include designing and managing multi-region AWS network architecture (transit gateway topology, VPC design, address-space strategy, and routing across production, clearing, and platform environments). You will design and enforce network segmentation to isolate workload, corporate, and partner traffic, ensuring the network layer is delivered as code via Terraform and GitOps.
Key focus areas include leading the transition to a zero-trust / SASE access model with application-level access and strong device posture for a distributed engineering team, and collaborating closely with the Security team to translate threat models into durable network designs that meet regulated-industry standards and audit requirements. You will own the partner connectivity estate, managing site-to-site VPNs, BGP peering, and Direct Connect circuits to financial-services counterparties, as well as office and edge networking including ISP redundancy.
You will define network observability standards, serve as the senior escalation point for incidents, disaster recovery, and cross-region failover, and apply an AI-native approach to network operations using agentic workflows for audit, drift detection, and rapid analysis of configuration and flow data. Additionally, you will provide technical leadership by writing standards, reviewing designs across teams, and mentoring engineers to ensure network resiliency.
The role requires 7+ years in network engineering with 3+ years in cloud-native environments, deep AWS networking expertise, strong fundamentals in routing, BGP, IPsec, TLS, DNS, and DHCP, hands-on experience with network segmentation and traffic inspection, zero-trust / SASE experience, and proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices. This is a hybrid role requiring three days per week onsite in either the San Francisco FiDi or Culver City office.
