
Senior Systems Engineer
Automattic
- Location
- Brazil
- Posted
Systems Engineer for high availability, performance & security of Automattic's global infrastructure
Automattic
Systems Engineer for high availability, performance & security of Automattic's global infrastructure
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Automattic
Automattic is seeking a Systems Engineer to deliver high availability, performance, and security for its global infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have experience with large-scale Nginx setups, MySQL/MariaDB deployments, PHP applications, and complex public-facing web hosting systems. They will work on proactive planning, sound architectural decisions, automation, and rapid response to failures. With a focus on operational excellence and attention to detail, the Systems Engineer will participate in all aspects of infrastructure management and share learnings with the team. Automattic values diversity and offers flexible remote work options, a global salary range, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Automattic, the tech powerhouse behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, Tumblr, and WooCommerce, is looking for the world’s best systems engineers. On our Systems team, you’ll deliver high availability, performance, and security for tens of billions of page views and over a billion web surfers each month—from 30 private data centers in 30 locations on 6 continents. Help us develop, build, and maintain a leading global infrastructure and share our learnings with the world.
As part of a small and vertically integrated team responsible for a huge setup, you’ll have a unique opportunity to participate in all aspects of the management of our infrastructure, including:
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 our users through optimization of server-side and client-side interactions, and work with 3rd party services where necessary;
Ensuring our services are safe and secure for both our users and employees through a combination of proactive monitoring and enforcement, real-time response, and maintaining data integrity/backups to allow recovery from disasters;
Removing as much friction as possible between Automattic developers and their goal of shipping software. When there are questions, we provide answers—usually in a matter of minutes, sometimes seconds;
Here's a real-time traffic map. Each color represents an Automattic data center: http://automattic.com/automattic-data-centers
The Systems Engineer position might be a good fit if you:
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 your teammates in person.
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We are looking to expand our team and aim to reflect and expand on the diversity of Automatticians currently working with us. At Automattic, we value diversity and know that different perspectives will ensure our team is innovative and creative thinking.
Salary range: $120,000-$180,000+ USD - Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency.
This isn’t your typical work-from-home job—we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. Read more about our compensation philosophy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page. And check out these links to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves.