Senior Systems Engineer
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Automattic CareersWeb Infrastructure
We are a fully-remote companyFull-TimeSenior
Salary120,000 - 180,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PHPMySQLNginx
Requirements
- Maintained large Nginx setups with advanced routing configuration, load balancing, reliable performance and high availability
- Run very large MySQL/MariaDB deployments while maintaining performance, uptime and data integrity
- Experience running and debugging PHP applications at scale
- Understand the relationship of services with lower level systems stacks (filesystems, network, memory management, kernel internals)
- Deep operational and maintenance experience with very large and complex public facing web hosting systems
- Ability to autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions
- Extreme attention to detail and strive for operational excellence
- Available for 2-3 week post-COVID travel per year to meet teammates in person
Responsibilities
- Maximize the availability and uptime of all services through proactive planning, sound architectural decisions, automation and rapid response to failures
- Make Automattic services as fast as possible for our users through optimization of server-side and client-side interactions
- Ensure services are safe and secure through proactive monitoring and real-time response
- Maintain data integrity and backups to allow recovery from disasters
- Remove friction between developers and their goal of shipping software by providing rapid support
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