Remote Senior Systems Engineer

Summary

Join Automattic's Systems team as a Systems Engineer to deliver high availability, performance, and security for tens of billions of page views and over a billion web surfers each month. As part of a small and vertically integrated team responsible for a huge setup, you'll have a unique opportunity to participate in all aspects of the management of our infrastructure.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Salary range: $120,000-$180,000+ USD
• Open vacation policy