Systems Engineer

Summary

Join WordPress VIP's fully remote team as a Systems Engineer, playing a vital role in developing, building, and maintaining our global infrastructure. You will solve complex problems and empower development teams working on high-profile, high-traffic sites. We seek candidates with experience in Kubernetes-based infrastructure, large-scale system performance, Linux systems administration, and proficiency in various technologies like NGINX, Docker, and more. A passion for open source and a willingness to learn are essential. We offer competitive salaries, an open vacation policy, home office setup allowances, hardware/software provision, company-sponsored life insurance, open parental leave, sabbaticals, and global team gatherings.

Requirements

• Experience with implementing and supporting Kubernetes-based infrastructure
• Experience working on a large-scale system to make it performant, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant
• Experience in Linux systems administration and a deep understanding of how web-related services (load balancers, high availability solutions, web servers, databases, caching daemons, etc.) work
• Proficiency in information systems concepts, system administration, and cloud platforms
• Proficiency with some or all of: NGINX, Docker, PHP, Golang, LUA, MySQL, ELK
• Working knowledge of network technologies such as: TCP/IP stack, IPv6, DNS, Anycast, firewalls (iptables), and TLS
• A passion for open source software
• A willingness to learn

Responsibilities

• Develop our growing global infrastructure
• Build our growing global infrastructure
• Maintain our growing global infrastructure
• Solve complex problems
• Empower development teams working at some of the most high-profile, high-traffic sites

Preferred Qualifications

Ability to guess what each dot represents on the map and explain the methodology used to figure it out

Benefits

• Open vacation policy (no set number of days per year)
• Home office setup and coworking allowances
• Hardware and software provision or reimbursement
• Reimbursement for books or conferences that promote continued learning
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Open parental leave (includes maternity, paternity, and adoption). If you’ve been with us for 12 months, your leave is fully paid
• Paid two to three-month sabbatical encouraged every five years
• A spiffy set of wireless headphones at your seven-year anniversary
• Company covers all costs of company travel
• Health, vision, and dental insurance (country-specific)
• Matching retirement/pension contributions (country-specific)
• Childcare vouchers (country-specific)
• Income protection (country-specific)
• Travel insurance (country-specific)
• Discount offers (country-specific)