Senior Systems Engineer

The role

You will manage global infrastructure to deliver high availability, performance, and security for tens of billions of page views. You will participate in all aspects of infrastructure management including automation, optimization, and security enforcement.

What you will do

• Maximize availability and uptime through proactive planning, architectural decisions, automation, and rapid response to failures
• Optimize server-side and client-side interactions to make services fast
• Ensure services are safe and secure through proactive monitoring, enforcement, and real-time response
• Maintain data integrity and backups to allow recovery from disasters
• Remove friction between developers and software shipping

Required qualifications

• Maintained large Nginx setups with advanced routing configuration, load balancing, reliable performance and high availability
• Run very large MySQL/MariaDB deployments while maintaining performance, uptime and data integrity
• 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
• 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
• Open and available for a 2-3 week travel per year to meet up with teammates in person

Benefits

• Straightforward, competitive base salary
• Fully-remote
• Open vacation policy

About the company

Automattic is a distributed company with more than 1500 Automatticians behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and other products. They aim to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging.