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Senior Systems Engineer
Automattic
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Key highlights
- $120,000-$180,000+ USD salary range
- Fully remote position
- 2-3 weeks annual post-COVID travel to meet teammates
- Responsible for 30 data centers across 6 continents
- 20th year company; powers WordPress.com, Jetpack, Tumblr, WooCommerce
- Extreme operational excellence expectations
Role overview
Automattic, the tech company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, Tumblr, and WooCommerce, seeks world-class systems engineers for their global infrastructure team. This small, vertically integrated team manages a massive setup across 30 data centers on 6 continents, handling tens of billions of page views and over a billion monthly users. The role spans availability, performance, and security while removing friction between developers and their infrastructure goals.
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. When there are questions, we provide answers—usually in a matter of minutes, sometimes seconds
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
Nice to have
- Are open and available for a 2-3 week post-COVID travel per year to meet up with your teammates in person
Benefits
- We are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy
- To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page
Additional details
- 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.
- About Automattic: Now in our 20th year, we're the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Beeper, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.
- We're a distributed company with more than 1500 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 so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source.
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