[Hiring] Senior Systems Engineer @Automattic Careers

Role Description

Automattic is looking for the world’s best systems engineers. On our Systems team, you’ll deliver high availability, performance, and security for tens of billions of page views and over a billion web surfers each month—from 30 private data centers in 30 locations on 6 continents. Help us develop, build, and maintain a leading global infrastructure and share our learnings with the world.

• Maximizing the availability and uptime of all services through proactive planning, sound architectural decisions, automation, and rapid response to failures.
• Making Automattic services as fast as possible for our users through optimization of server-side and client-side interactions, and work with 3rd party services where necessary.
• Ensuring our services are safe and secure for both our users and employees through a combination of proactive monitoring and enforcement, real-time response, and maintaining data integrity/backups to allow recovery from disasters.
• Removing as much friction as possible between Automattic developers and their goal of shipping software.

Qualifications

• Have maintained large Nginx setups with advanced routing configuration, load balancing, reliable performance, and high availability.
• Have run very large MySQL/MariaDB deployments while maintaining an unparalleled level of performance, uptime, and data integrity.
• Have experience running and debugging PHP applications at scale.
• Understand the relationship of these services with the lower level systems stacks - filesystems, network, memory management, kernel internals, etc.
• Have deep operational and maintenance experience with very large and complex public facing web hosting systems.
• Can autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions to different problems and hosting requirements.
• Possess extreme attention to detail and strive for unparalleled operational excellence.
• Are open and available for a 2-3 week post-COVID travel per year to meet up with your teammates in person.

Requirements

• Salary range: $120,000-$180,000+ USD.
• Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency.
• We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic.
• Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated for the right candidate.
• We’re pleased to offer a straightforward, competitive base salary, providing financial clarity without complex variable components.
• This isn’t your typical work-from-home job: we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy.

Benefits

• To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page.
• Check out these links to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves.

Company Description

Now in our 20th year, we’re the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.

• We’re a distributed company with more than 1400 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages.
• Enriched by this diversity, we’re united by a singular mission: to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging.
• We believe in Open Source, and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL.
• Automattic is a Most Loved Company and Disability Confident Committed.