Staff Network Engineer

About the role

About Altruist

Altruist is transforming the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry by building an AI platform for wealth professionals. We partner with financial advisors nationwide, empowering them to grow, optimize time and resources, and deliver superior outcomes for their clients.

We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. 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!

But first, our values

Kindness - Kindness doesn’t just equal niceness. We listen to understand. We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.

Brilliance - Humility is the skill we’re most proud of and possessing a growth mindset is always top of mind. We take ownership in everything we touch; regularly using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team. We succeed and fail as one.

Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it’s hard. We are nimble and maintain a sense of urgency, swiftly adapting to change and overcoming obstacles.

About the position

Altruist is the modern custodian built exclusively for independent financial advisors, combining a self-clearing brokerage firm with intuitive software for account opening, trading, reporting, and billing. Our mission is to make financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to everyone.

We’re hiring our first dedicated Staff Network Engineer. We run a regulated broker-dealer and clearing platform on a multi-account, multi-region AWS estate, connected to clearing, custody, market-data, and banking partners over dedicated circuits and encrypted tunnels. You will own how those networks are designed, segmented, secured, and operated — from cloud routing topology and partner connectivity to how our own people reach internal systems — working in close partnership with our Security team, whose requirements shape much of this roadmap, and bringing an AI-native approach to the work. You will set the standards here, not inherit someone else’s.

This role follows a hybrid schedule, with three days per week onsite in our San Francisco FiDi or Culver City office.

Your impact

- 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.