Senior Software Engineer
Overview
Automattic is looking for talented engineers to help push the boundaries of what’s possible with WordPress and the web.
Job Description
WordPress VIP, the enterprise division of Automattic, is the platform for building, maintaining, scaling, and measuring content experiences. Our suite of technologies, services, and integrations combine the ease and flexibility of WordPress with enterprise-grade scalability, security, and data-driven features, to help the largest companies in the world build better digital experiences.
Responsibilities
- - Discovery work and writing technical design proposals and documentation
- - Building, debugging, and testing products—including writing automated tests and doing manual testing
- - Participating in release planning and roll-outs
- - Measuring impact and iterating
- - Work across the stack, from the user experience layer to the backend services layer and the underlying orchestration system
- - Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders
- - Implement monitoring, alerting, and automation to improve the observability, reliability, and security of our products
- - Perform on-call duties on a rotating basis as part of a globally distributed team, including troubleshooting failed actions and fixing underlying issues in services
Required Skills
- - Production experience with one or more programming languages
- - Experience working with a large-scale system to make it faster, more scalable, and more fault-tolerant
- - Highly collaborative, with a strong enthusiasm for participating in code reviews and discussions about architecture, technical design, and solving customer problems
- - Knowledgeable about design patterns and testability; experience testing frameworks, performance testing, and unit testing is very welcome
- - Customer-focused mindset, with good instincts on product design and user experience
- - Willingness to learn
- - Experience with enterprise-scale products
- - Building things using: WordPress, Gutenberg / Block Editor, APIs, React, decoupled architectures, Python (Django)
- - Real-world experience with security: incident response, threat modeling, working on bug bounty programs, hardening systems, etc.
- - Skilled in working with data: visualizing data, analyzing data, building data pipelines, Applied AI/ML, etc.
- - Open source contributions or contributions to programs designed to help underrepresented people enter the tech field
Benefits
- - Fully-remote company
- - Open vacation policy
- - Compensation philosophy reflecting potential contribution and impact
- - Benefits vary by country
About the company
We are the people behind WordPress.com, Woo, Jetpack, WordPress VIP, Simplenote, Longreads, The Atavist, WPScan, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, Tumblr, Day One, Pocket Casts, Newspack, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.