Systems Engineer, WordPress VIP

Summary

We’re looking for Systems Engineers to join our fully remote team, where you’ll play an essential role in developing, building, and maintaining our growing global infrastructure. If you enjoy solving complex problems and are eager to empower development teams working at some of the most high-profile, high-traffic sites out there, come and join us.

Benefits

• • Open vacation policy (no set number of days per year). We encourage all employees to take the time they need for vacation, to pursue their own interests, to stay healthy, and to spend time with friends and family.
• • Home office setup and coworking allowances. Working from a coffee shop? You can use your coworking allowance for the requisite latte!
• • We happily provide or reimburse hardware and software you’ll need, as well as books or conferences that promote continued learning.
• • Company-sponsored life insurance.
• • Open parental leave (includes maternity, paternity, and adoption). If you’ve been with us for 12 months, your leave is fully paid.
• • Paid two to three-month sabbatical encouraged every five years.
• • A spiffy set of wireless headphones at your seven-year anniversary.
• • We cover all costs of company travel, so dust off that passport! Your team will get together one to three times per year in locations around the globe.
• • Other benefits are country-specific, and include health, vision, and dental insurance; matching retirement/pension contributions; childcare vouchers; income protection; travel insurance; and discount offers.

Qualifications

• • Experience with implementing and supporting Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
• • Experience working on a large-scale system to make it performant, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant.
• • Experience in Linux systems administration and a deep understanding of how web-related services (load balancers, high availability solutions, web servers, databases, caching daemons, etc.) work.
• • Proficiency in information systems concepts, system administration, and cloud platforms.

• Proficiency with some or all of:

  • • NGINX, Docker, PHP, Golang, LUA, MySQL, ELK.

• Working knowledge of network technologies such as:

  • • TCP/IP stack, IPv6, DNS, Anycast, firewalls (iptables), and TLS.
• • A passion for open source software.
• • A willingness to learn!

Additional Information and Instructions

Salary range: $120,000-$180,000 USD. Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency. We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic. 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.

About Automattic

We are the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and more. We believe in making the web a better place. We’re a distributed company with more than 1900 Automatticians in 96 countries speaking 120+ different languages. And, even more than growth and profitability (although we’re plenty profitable), above all, we’re driven by a mission: We democratize publishing and commerce so anyone with a story can tell it, and anyone with a product can sell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or country.

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