Automattic
Senior Systems Engineer
Remote Systems Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 21, 2026
Eligible countries10 accepted countries
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Role overview
Senior Systems Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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- 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;
- 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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