Automattic
VIP Systems Engineer
Automattic
$120k - $180k
Worldwide (Remote)
Kubernetes
Linux
NGINX

VIP Systems Engineer

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. Our platform 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. We’re looking for Systems Engineers to join our fully remote team, where you’ll play an essential role in developing, building, and maintaining our growing global infrastructure.

Job Description

Automattic is the company behind products like WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, and PocketCasts. They believe in making the web a better place and have a distributed team of more than 1900 Automatticians in 96 countries.

Responsibilities

  • - Developing, building, and maintaining our growing global infrastructure
  • - Solving complex problems to empower development teams
  • - Ensuring the platform is performant, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant

Required Skills

  • - Experience with implementing and supporting Kubernetes-based infrastructure
  • - Experience in Linux systems administration
  • - Proficiency with NGINX, Docker, PHP, Golang, LUA, MySQL, ELK

Benefits

  • - Open vacation policy
  • - Home office setup and coworking allowances
  • - Company-sponsored life insurance
  • - Open parental leave
  • - WordPress-branded laptop at four-year anniversary
  • - Wireless headphones at seven-year anniversary
  • - Paid two to three-month sabbatical every five years
  • - Company travel costs coverage
  • - Health, vision, and dental insurance (country-specific)
  • - Matching retirement/pension contributions (country-specific)
  • - Childcare vouchers (country-specific)
  • - Income protection (country-specific)

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.