Senior Systems Engineer

Automattic 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.

Responsibilities include:
- Maximizing availability and uptime of all services through proactive planning and automation
- Making Automattic services as fast as possible through server-side and client-side optimization
- Ensuring services are safe and secure
- Removing friction between developers and shipping software

The position might be a good fit if you:
- Have maintained large Nginx setups with advanced routing, load balancing, and high availability
- Have run very large MySQL/MariaDB deployments with unparalleled performance and uptime
- Have experience running and debugging PHP applications at scale
- Understand the relationship of these services with lower level system stacks
- Have deep operational experience with large public facing web hosting systems
- Can autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions

Salary: $120,000-$180,000 USD