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Company

Automattic · 5 hours ago

Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise WordPress

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$70K/yr - $170K/yr

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Responsibilities

Developing and maintaining enterprise-ready WordPress plugins.

Discovery work, and writing technical design proposals and documentation.

Building, debugging, and testing—including writing automated tests and doing manual testing.

Participating in release planning and roll-outs.

Measuring impact and iterating.

Implement solutions end-to-end, from the many layers within WordPress (frontend, Gutenberg, wp-admin, drop-ins, etc.) to backend APIs and services 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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WordPress developmentGutenberg block developmentReactPHPLarge-scale systemsDesign patternsTesting frameworksPerformance testingUnit testingData visualizationData analysisData pipelinesApplied AI/MLSecurity incident responseThreat modelingOpen source contributionsCustomer-focused mindset

Required

Deep, demonstrable knowledge of modern WordPress development and Gutenberg block development and its internal APIs.

Skilled in React, PHP, and the WordPress ecosystem.

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; experienced with 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 WordPress deployments.

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.

A history of developing large-scale publishing platforms for major digital media or publishing brands.

Knowledge of the publishing process and editorial workflows.

Open source contributions, or contributions to programs designed to help underrepresented people enter the tech field.

Company

Automattic

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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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