Staff DevOps Engineer

Come help us build and maintain world-class CI/CD infrastructure across Automattic. We're looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join the QualityOps team. You'll own the systems that keep engineers shipping fast and confidently: CI pipelines, test reliability, build tooling, and developer experience.

What you'll do:
- Own CI/CD infrastructure. Manage builds and pipelines, guide teams to the right CI tool
- Eliminate flakiness in tests and infrastructure
- Curate the test suite for speed
- Improve developer experience by finding and fixing friction
- Enable engineers to own their tests
- Build release tooling: deploy pipelines, pre-release test gating

What we're looking for:
- Deep experience with CI/CD systems: TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Buildkite
- Strong in at least two of: PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Bash
- Track record of improving build or test reliability at scale
- Comfortable debugging flaky tests, parallelism issues, and infrastructure edge cases
- Fluent with AI-assisted development workflows

Salary: $70,000-$170,000 USD