Senior Systems Engineer @ Automattic
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Overview
Automattic, the tech powerhouse behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, Tumblr, and WooCommerce, is looking for the world’s best systems engineers. In this role as Senior Systems Engineer, you will deliver high availability, performance, and security for tens of billions of page views and over a billion web surfers every month from 30 private data centers across 6 continents.
Key Responsibilities
- Maximize availability and uptime through proactive planning and rapid response.
- Optimize server-side and client-side performance and work with 3rd party services.
- Ensure safety and security via proactive monitoring and real-time response.
- Remove friction between developers and deployment cycles with autonomous solutions.
- Participate in all aspects of infrastructure management and share learnings.
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate has extensive experience maintaining large-scale Nginx setups, managing high performance MySQL/MariaDB deployments, debugging PHP applications at scale, and a deep understanding of underlying systems such as filesystems, networking, and kernel internals. Autonomy in architectural decisions along with extreme attention to detail are essential.
Additional Information
This is a fully-remote position with an open vacation policy. Occasional 2-3 week post-COVID travel is expected to meet team members in person. Automattic values diversity and inclusion, ensuring a welcoming environment for all applicants.
Key skills/competency
- High Availability
- Performance Optimization
- Security
- Nginx
- MySQL/MariaDB
- PHP
- Automation
- Infrastructure
- Linux
- Monitoring
How to Get Hired at Automattic
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Customize resume: Tailor it for systems engineering roles.
- Highlight experience: Emphasize Nginx, MySQL, PHP skills.
- Research Automattic: Understand their products, culture, remote work.
- Prepare for interviews: Review technical and behavioral examples.