Senior Systems Engineer

The Role

Automattic is looking for the world’s best Systems Engineers. On our Systems team, you’ll deliver high availability, performance, and security for tens of billions of page views and over a billion web surfers each month—from 30 private data centers in 30 locations on 6 continents.

Help us develop, build, and maintain a leading global infrastructure and share our learnings with the world. As part of a small and vertically integrated team responsible for a huge setup, you’ll have a unique opportunity to participate in all aspects of the management of our infrastructure, including:

• Maximizing Availability: Ensuring uptime of all services through proactive planning, sound architectural decisions, automation, and rapid response to failures.

• Performance Optimization: Making Automattic services as fast as possible for our users through server-side and client-side interactions, and working with 3rd party services where necessary.

• Security & Data Integrity: 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 Friction: 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.

🗺️ Infrastructure at a glance: Here’s a real-time traffic map where each color represents an Automattic data center: https://automattic.com/automattic-data-centers

Requirements

The Systems Engineer position might be a good fit if you:

• 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.

• 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.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary Range: $120,000 - $180,000+ USD. (Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency. Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated for the right candidate.)

• Transparent Pay: We’re pleased to offer a straightforward, competitive base salary, providing financial clarity without complex variable components.

• Fully Remote: This isn’t your typical work-from-home job: we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy.

• Global Perks: To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page.