Senior Systems Engineer
Automattic
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Salary: $120,000–$180,000+ USD (global range, paid in local currency)
- Pay may exceed the stated range for the right candidate based on potential contribution and impact
- Fully-remote company with an open vacation policy
- Must be open and available for 2–3 weeks of post-COVID travel per year to meet teammates in person
- Infrastructure spans 30 private data centers across 30 locations on 6 continents
- Serve tens of billions of page views and over a billion web surfers each month
Role overview
Automattic, the tech powerhouse behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Beeper, Simplenote, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and more, is looking for the world's best systems engineers. On the 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. You'll help develop, build, and maintain a leading global infrastructure and share your learnings with the world.
Responsibilities
- Participate in all aspects of the management of a huge, vertically integrated infrastructure setup as part of a small team
- 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 users through optimization of server-side and client-side interactions, and work with 3rd party services where necessary
- Ensure services are safe and secure for both 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, providing answers usually in a matter of minutes, sometimes seconds
- Develop, build, and maintain a leading global infrastructure
- Share learnings with the world
Requirements
- Maintained large Nginx setups with advanced routing configuration, load balancing, reliable performance, and high availability
- Run very large MySQL/MariaDB deployments while maintaining an unparalleled level of performance, uptime, and data integrity
- Experience running and debugging PHP applications at scale
- Understand the relationship of these services with lower-level systems stacks—filesystems, network, memory management, kernel internals, etc.
- 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
- Extreme attention to detail and strive for unparalleled operational excellence
- Open and available for a 2-3 week post-COVID travel per year to meet up with teammates in person
Benefits
- Straightforward, competitive base salary providing financial clarity without complex variable components
- Fully-remote company
- Open vacation policy
- Pay may go beyond the stated salary range for the right candidate, reflecting potential contribution and impact
Additional details
- Salary range: $120,000–$180,000+ USD; salary ranges are global regardless of location, and pay is in local currency
- 30 private data centers in 30 locations on 6 continents serving tens of billions of page views and over a billion web surfers each month
- Real-time traffic map showing Automattic data centers (each color represents one)
- Now in our 20th year; distributed company with more than 1500 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages
- Mission: 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
- Believe in Open Source; vast majority of work available under the GPL
- Most Loved Company, Equal Opportunity employer, and Disability Confident Committed
- Accommodations available during the application or interview process via a provided form
- Committed to ensuring an accessible hiring process for all candidates
- Employee Resource Groups available
- Application status tracked at MyGreenhouse
- Job Applicant & Candidate Privacy Notice and Privacy Policy available for review
- All qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status
- E-Verify participation in certain locations as required by law
- Originally posted on Himalayas
- We value diversity and know that different perspectives will ensure the team is innovative and creative
- Seeking high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic
- Links available to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves
- Benefits by country available on the Benefits Page