Senior Systems Engineer
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- Target Role:Senior Systems Engineer
- Employer:Automattic
- Work Mode:REMOTE
- Location:Remote (Worldwide)
- Compensation:Competitive (Industry Standard)
- Experience:2+ Years
- Recruiter SLA:7-Day Truth Teller Guarantee
- Candidate Fee:₹0 (Zero Placement Fee Guarantee)
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About the Role
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 th
Requirements & Qualifications
- Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.
Perks & Benefits
- Official mentor support
- verified hiring timeline
- and career progression.
The employer seeks candidates proficient in the following core technologies:
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