Senior Systems Engineer
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Job description
Systems Engineer role on Automattic's Systems team, responsible for delivering high availability, performance, and security for a large global infrastructure across 30 private data centers. The role involves managing, automating, and optimizing public-facing web hosting systems at scale.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa +1
- Pay
- USD 120,000 – 180,000 / year
What you'll do
- 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 users through optimization of server-side and client-side interactions, and working with 3rd party services where necessary
- Ensuring services are safe and secure for users and employees through proactive monitoring and enforcement, real-time response, and maintaining data integrity/backups to allow recovery from disasters
- Removing friction between Automattic developers and their goal of shipping software, providing answers usually in minutes or seconds
What we're looking for
- 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 teammates in person
Your team
Systems team
A small and vertically integrated team responsible for a huge setup, participating in all aspects of the management of Automattic's infrastructure.
Benefits
- Fully-remote company with an open vacation policy
- Straightforward, competitive base salary, providing financial clarity without complex variable components
- Benefits by country listed on the Benefits Page
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About Automattic
The tech powerhouse behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, Tumblr, and WooCommerce. A distributed company with more than 1500 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages.
Mission
To democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source.
Key facts
- more than 1500 Automatticians
- Now in our 20th year
- 30 private data centers in 30 locations on 6 continents
- We believe in Open Source, and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL
- Automattic is a Most Loved Company, an Equal Opportunity employer, and Disability Confident Committed
- Automattic participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law
What they value
- Open Source
- Diversity
- Making the web a better place