VIP Systems Engineer, Automattic
Systems Engineer
$120-180k
Making the web a better place
Be an early applicant
Making the web a better place
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$120-180k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize publishing and commerce so that anyone with a story can tell it, and anyone with a product can sell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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!
What the job involves
- 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
Our take
At a time when companies like Facebook, Apple, and Google were turning into monopolistic market leaders, Automattic was building its open-source infrastructure on a distributed, volunteer-run workforce. Since its launch in 2005, the company has continued to evolve and expand as it built its new web empire.
Automattic is the company behind WordPress (which powers roughly 42% of all websites), Jetpack, Tumblr, Simplenote, WooCommerce (which is believed to run more than a quarter of all online storefronts), Longreads, Crowdsignal, Atavist, Day One, and more.
The company’s “Five for the Future” initiative allocates 5% of its resources to further the development of WordPress, and many other companies that utilize Automattic’s communities follow some version of the initiative, contributing back code and time to support the community. Still spinning out new projects such as an anti-spam filter and online identity safeguards, the unicorn company is a powerhouse that is well set to continue its path to long-lasting growth.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$288m
LATE VC
Sep 2019
$300m
SERIES D
Total funding: $778.6m
Company benefits
- Flexible Working Hours
- Work from Home Options
- Co-Working Space Stipend
- Home Office Stipend
- Mental Health Apps
- Three Months Sabbatical Every Five Years
Company values
- We are Passionate Advocates for our Customers
- Effective Communication
- Collaborative Problem Solving
Company HQ
Bernal Heights, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Matt Mullenweg
(CEO)Former President at Automattic. Current Lead Developer at WordPress, and Board Member at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and ecoAmerica. Former Board Member at Grist, and GitLab Inc. Previous Senior Product Manager at CNET Networks.
People progressing
Design Director/UX Ninja Jetpack. Strategic UX/Product Design leader with over 19 years of experience in Product Design, User Experience & User Research methodologies & Product Management.
Head of Communications. Writer, editor, communicator, producer. Their first WordPress site was a self-hosted tech blog called effinnerds.com that she built in 2008. Speaks English, Khmer, and Spanish.
Diversity & Inclusion at Automattic
- We are committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: https://automattic.com/diversity-and-inclusion/ A diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace comprises people of many identities and abilities. It invites community members to share their opinions and ideas, which it then uses to improve the company. It celebrates employees’ various cultures and heritages; it plans team- and company-wide meetups that are accessible to all; it invites people to effect change within the company; it provides an array of tools and methods to help its employees become experts in their positions; and it encourages individualized successes, which benefit the company at large. Automattic is a Most Loved Company (https://mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/automattic-inc/) and Disability Confident Committed (https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/).
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