WP Engine
Production Engineer, Senior
Remote Site Reliability Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 15, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Australia
Role overview
Production Engineer, Senior
Requirements and responsibilities
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The Day to Day
- Production Leadership: Curate an engineering culture that is biased toward shipping while maintaining very high standards of stability, performance, security, and scalability.
- Infrastructure Management: Monitor, alert, investigate, and resolve production infrastructure challenges across public cloud environments (including GCP and AWS).
- Automation & Optimization: Actively identify opportunities and implement automated, scalable solutions to optimize code and operational tasks, reducing toil across the platform.
- Incident & Problem Management: Serve as a technical point of contact during critical issues, facilitate cross-functional communication, track alert trends, and perform root cause analysis (RCA) to drive structural improvements.
- Change Execution: Execute production change and security requests, safely managing code deployments and patching pipelines.
- Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering Management to align technical solutions and execution strategies with business goals and roadmap priorities.
- Mentorship: Further an ecosystem of learning and professional development by coaching, mentoring, and leveling up exceptional engineers across the organization.
Your Expertise and Passion
- Experience: 5+ years of software engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience building and running production-ready configurations at internet scale.
- System Design: Strong history of system architecture, distributed microservices, and self-healing systems with efficient resource and network utilization.
- Cloud & Containerization: Advanced expertise executing containerized workloads using Kubernetes orchestration and Docker across public cloud hosting providers.
- Programming Languages: Proficient in structural and automated scripting using object-oriented languages, with strong experience in Python and Go preferred.
- Web Serving Stack: In-depth understanding of the modern web serving stack and infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Linux, Nginx/Apache, MySQL, PHP, Ansible, Terraform).
- Observability: Hands-on familiarity implementing metrics, monitoring, and alerting systems (such as Prometheus or EFK stacks) to maximize infrastructure visibility.
- Mindset: A forward-thinking learner with superb analytical, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis capabilities who loves a team-first environment.
Perks and Benefits
- Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)
- Superannuation Program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Supplemental Maternity & Paternity Pay
- Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn't like time off)
- One-time $745 AUS Home Office Stipend
- Company Wellness Days
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