Automattic, the tech powerhouse behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, Tumblr, and WooCommerce,
is looking for the world’s best systems engineers. On our 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. Help us develop, build, and maintain a
leading global infrastructure and share our learnings with the world.
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, including:
* 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;
Here's a real-time traffic map. Each color represents an Automattic data center: https://automattic.com/automattic-data-centers
The Systems Engineer position might be a good fit if you:
* 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.
We are looking to expand our team and aim to reflect and expand on
the diversity of Automatticians currently working with us. At
Automattic, we value diversity and know that different perspectives will
ensure our team is innovative and creative thinking.
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.
This isn’t your typical work-from-home job—we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. Read more about our compensation philosophy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page. And check out these links to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves. #LI-Remote
About Automattic
We are the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, Pocket Casts, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.
We’re a distributed company with more than 1700 Automatticians in 92
countries speaking 110+ different languages. And, even more than growth
and profitability (although we’re plenty profitable), above all, we’re
driven by a mission: We democratize publishing and commerce so anyone
with a story can tell it, and anyone with a product can sell it,
regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or country.
We believe in Open Source, and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Automattic
We’re improving diversity in the tech industry. At Automattic, we
want people to love their work and show respect and empathy to all. We
welcome differences and strive to increase participation from
traditionally underrepresented groups. Our DEI committee involves
Automatticians across the company and drives grassroots change. For
example, this group has helped facilitate private online spaces for
affiliated Automatticians to gather and helps run a monthly DEI People
Lab series for further learning. DEI is a priority at Automattic, though
our dedication influences far more than just Automatticians: We make
our products freely available and translate our products into and offer
customer support in numerous languages. We require unconscious bias
training for our hiring teams and ensure our products are accessible
across different bandwidths and devices.
Automattic is a Most Loved Company and Disability Confident Committed. (Here’s what that might mean for you.) Learn more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion and our Employee Resource Groups.