VIP Systems Engineer

WordPress VIP is the digital platform of choice for the world’s top brands and publishers. Our expertise running performant secure and stable applications at scale enables our clients to power high-touch digital experiences with ease. Our platform combines the unparalleled WordPress user experience with enterprise-grade infrastructure and world-class support serving billions of web requests per day. As one of the most used and ubiquitous software platforms on Earth security and reliability are critical.

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.

We’d love to chat with you if you have:

• 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 !

Bonus points if you can guess what each dot represents on the map below and tell us the methodology you used to figure it out. http://automattic.com/automattic-data-centers

Curious who works in engineering at Automattic? Meet our Code Wranglers Brandon Jeremy Mark Jennifer Roy and Kat at https://youtu.be/jyhYkuuzL_0 ! These are exciting times at WordPress VIP and you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape the future of our platform. Join us! We look forward to hearing from you.

If you have some time and want to learn more about how we do things watch this ScaleConf video .

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.

• WordPress-branded laptop at your four-year anniversary. A spiffy set of wireless headphones at your seven-year anniversary.

• Paid two to three-month sabbatical encouraged every five years.

• 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.

What to Expect

We know applying to jobs can be stressful and we want to ease the stress by giving clear expectations up front about what to expect from our process. We’ve outlined everything you need to know here including all of the steps in the process as well as how we approach hiring. We’re always iterating so if you happen to join us in the process please feel free to offer feedback on what else we can include there!

Salary range: $120000-$180000 USD - Please note that salary ranges are global regardless of location and we pay in local currency.

Read more about our compensation philosophy and benefits .