Senior Systems Engineer

1 month ago
Full-time
Senior
DevOps and Infrastructure
Automattic

Automattic

Automattic, Inc. is a web development company founded in August 2005, known for WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and other products. With over 1,500 employees in 84 countries, Automattic is dedicated to making the web a better place through its inn...

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2005
$617M raised

Description

  • Maximize availability and uptime through proactive planning, sound architecture, automation, and rapid incident response.
  • Improve service performance by optimizing server-side and client-side interactions and integrating third-party services when needed.
  • Protect services and user data through proactive monitoring, enforcement, real-time response, backups, and disaster recovery.
  • Reduce friction for developers by answering infrastructure and systems questions quickly and effectively.
  • Develop, build, and maintain large-scale infrastructure and hosting systems.
  • Participate in the management of systems spanning multiple global data centers.
  • Architect, prototype, and maintain solutions for different hosting requirements.
  • Support operational excellence across highly complex public-facing web hosting environments.

Requirements

  • Experience maintaining large Nginx setups with advanced routing, load balancing, high availability, and reliable performance.
  • Experience running very large MySQL/MariaDB deployments with strong uptime and data integrity.
  • Experience running and debugging PHP applications at scale.
  • Strong understanding of lower-level systems topics including filesystems, networking, memory management, and kernel internals.
  • Deep operational and maintenance experience with large, complex public-facing web hosting systems.
  • Ability to autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions to varied problems.
  • Extreme attention to detail and a commitment to operational excellence.
  • Availability for 2-3 weeks of post-COVID travel per year to meet teammates in person.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $120,000-$180,000+ USD, paid in local currency.
  • Competitive base salary with no complex variable compensation.
  • Fully remote work.
  • Open vacation policy.
  • Benefits package available by country.
  • Equal opportunity employer with accessible hiring accommodations.
  • Support for employee resource groups and a diverse, distributed workplace.

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