Senior Systems Engineer

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Automattic, the tech powerhouse behind WordPress.com , Jetpack , Tumblr , and WooCommerce , 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. Help us develop, build, and maintain a leading global infrastructure and share our learnings with the world. As part of a small and vertically integrated team responsible for a huge setup, you’ll have a unique opportunity to participate in all aspects of the management of our infrastructure, including: • 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; Here's a real-time traffic map. Each color represents an Automattic data center: http://automattic.com/automattic-data-centers The Systems Engineer position might be a good fit if you: • 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 requireme Job description: Remote