Senior Systems Engineer

Automattic is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to deliver high availability, performance, and security for tens of billions of page views and over a billion web surfers each month. The role involves developing, building, and maintaining a leading global infrastructure, optimizing server-side and client-side interactions, and ensuring services are safe and secure.

Requirements

• Maintained large Nginx setups with advanced routing configuration, load balancing, reliable performance and high availability
• Run very large MySQL/MariaDB deployments while maintaining an unparalleled level of performance, uptime and data integrity
• Experience running and debugging PHP applications at scale
• 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

Benefits

• Straightforward, competitive base salary
• Financial clarity without complex variable components
• Open vacation policy
• Flexible work arrangements
• Opportunity to work with a diverse team
• Access to a wide range of benefits