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Company

Automattic · 4 hours ago

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$70K/yr - $170K/yr

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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.

Qualification

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JavaScriptTypeScriptPHPWordPressReactPythonGutenberg / Block EditorAPIsData visualizationData analysisData pipelinesApplied AI/MLSecurity incident responseThreat modelingBug bounty programsHardening systemsTestabilityPerformance testingUnit testingCode reviewsOpen source contributionsCustomer-focused mindset

Required

Production experience with one or more programming languages. We mostly use JavaScript/TypeScript and PHP; you should either be familiar with them already or the idea of using them every day should not be a blocker for you.

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.

Preferred

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

Open vacation policy

Company

Automattic

Glassdoor

4.2

Automattic is a global tech company that offers WordPress, WooCommerce, and other web solutions.

Founded in 2005

San Francisco, California, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

http://automattic.com

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