Systems Engineer, WordPress VIP
Overview
WordPress VIP is the digital platform of choice for the world’s top brands and publishers. Our expertise running performant, secure, and stable applications at scale enables our clients to power high-touch digital experiences with ease.
Job Description
WordPress VIP combines the unparalleled WordPress user experience with enterprise-grade infrastructure and world-class support, serving billions of web requests per day. As one of the most used and ubiquitous software platforms on Earth, security and reliability are critical.
Responsibilities
- - Develop, build, and maintain our growing global infrastructure
- - Solve complex problems and empower development teams working at high-profile, high-traffic sites
Required Skills
- - Experience with implementing and supporting Kubernetes-based infrastructure
- - Experience working on a large-scale system to make it performant, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant
- - Experience in Linux systems administration and a deep understanding of how web-related services work
- - Proficiency in information systems concepts, system administration, and cloud platforms
- - Proficiency with some or all of: NGINX, Docker, PHP, Golang, LUA, MySQL, ELK
- - Working knowledge of network technologies such as: TCP/IP stack, IPv6, DNS, Anycast, firewalls (iptables), and TLS
- - A passion for open source software
- - A willingness to learn
Benefits
- - Open vacation policy
- - Home office setup and coworking allowances
- - Company-sponsored life insurance
- - Open parental leave
- - Paid two to three-month sabbatical encouraged every five years
- - A spiffy set of wireless headphones at your seven-year anniversary
- - Company travel covered
- - Country-specific benefits including health, vision, and dental insurance; matching retirement/pension contributions; childcare vouchers; income protection; travel insurance; and discount offers
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.