Senior Systems Engineer

Summary

Join Automattic, a leading tech company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, Tumblr, and WooCommerce, as a Systems Engineer. You will contribute to maintaining high availability, performance, and security for a massive global infrastructure. This role involves managing and optimizing various services, ensuring security, and collaborating with developers. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience with large-scale systems, including Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP applications. The position requires deep operational expertise and the ability to architect and maintain solutions. Automattic offers a competitive salary, a fully remote work environment, and an open vacation policy.

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
• Are open and available for a 2-3 week post-COVID travel per year to meet up with your teammates in person

Responsibilities

• Maximize the availability and uptime of all services through proactive planning, sound architectural decisions, automation and rapid response to failures
• Make 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
• Ensure 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
• Remove as much friction as possible between Automattic developers and their goal of shipping software. When there are questions, we provide answers—usually in a matter of minutes, sometimes seconds

Benefits

• Straightforward, competitive base salary
• Fully-remote company
• Open vacation policy