Automattic · 5 months ago
Senior Systems Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior LevelAutomattic, the tech powerhouse behind WordPress.com, is seeking exceptional systems engineers to join their team. The role involves delivering high availability, performance, and security for a vast infrastructure, while ensuring seamless operations and support for developers.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Maximizing the availability and uptime of all services through proactive planning, sound architectural decisions, automation and rapid response to failures
Making Automattic services as fast as possible for our users through optimization of server-side and client-side interactions, and work with 3rd party services where necessary
Ensuring our services are safe and secure for both our users and employees through a combination of proactive monitoring and enforcement, real-time response, and maintaining data integrity/backups to allow recovery from disasters
Removing as much friction as possible between Automattic developers and their goal of shipping software. When there are questions, we provide answers—usually in a matter of minutes, sometimes seconds
Qualification
Required
Have maintained large Nginx setups with advanced routing configuration, load balancing, reliable performance and high availability
Have run very large MySQL/MariaDB deployments while maintaining an unparalleled level of performance, uptime and data integrity
Have experience running and debugging PHP applications at scale
Understand the relationship of these services with the lower level systems stacks - filesystems, network, memory management, kernel internals, etc
Have deep operational and maintenance experience with very large and complex public facing web hosting systems
Can autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions to different problems and hosting requirements
Possess extreme attention to detail and strive for unparalleled operational excellence
Are open and available for a 2-3 week post-COVID travel per year to meet up with your teammates in person
Benefits
Open vacation policy
Company
Automattic
Automattic is a global tech company that offers WordPress, WooCommerce, and other web solutions.
Founded in 2005
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$985.9MKey Investors
Salesforce VenturesInsight PartnersTiger Global Management
2021-02-17Series E· $288M
2020-05-15Secondary Market
2019-12-11Series Unknown· $80.6M
Leadership Team
Matt Mullenweg
CEO
Jon Burke
Vice-President / Business Lead
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