Senior Systems Engineer

• Deliver high availability, performance, and security for tens of billions of page views and over a billion web surfers each month. • Operate across 30 private data centres in 30 locations on 6 continents as part of a small, vertically integrated team responsible for a huge setup. • Participate in all aspects of infrastructure management for the platforms behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, Tumblr, and WooCommerce. • Help develop, build, and maintain a leading global infrastructure and share learnings with the world.

• 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 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. • Autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions to different problems and hosting requirements. • Possess extreme attention to detail and strive for unparalleled operational excellence. • Be open and available for 2–3 weeks of travel per year to meet up with teammates in person.

• Have experience operating infrastructure across multiple data centres and geographic regions. • Bring expertise in automation tooling for large-scale infrastructure management. • Have experience with CDN architecture and global traffic management. • Have contributed to open-source infrastructure or systems projects.

• Maximise the availability and uptime of all services through proactive planning, sound architectural decisions, automation, and rapid response to failures. • Make Automattic services as fast as possible for users through optimisation of server-side and client-side interactions, and work with third-party services where necessary. • Ensure services are safe and secure for both users and employees through proactive monitoring and enforcement, real-time response, and maintaining data integrity and backups for disaster recovery. • Remove as much friction as possible between Automattic developers and their goal of shipping software, providing answers in minutes or seconds.

• Work fully remotely from anywhere in the world as part of a distributed company with 1,500+ employees. • Enjoy an open vacation policy. • Receive a straightforward, competitive base salary paid in local currency. • Work with infrastructure at extraordinary scale — tens of billions of page views across 30 data centres on 6 continents. • Travel 2–3 weeks per year for in-person team meetups.

Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Beeper, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and more. Now in their 20th year, they are a distributed company with more than 1,500 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages. Their mission is to democratise publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it and anyone with a product can sell it.