Senior Systems Engineer
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AutomatticWeb hosting infrastructure
Listing locations: North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, APACFull-TimeSenior
Salary120,000 - 180,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PHPMySQLNginxNetworking
Requirements
- 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 performance, uptime, and data integrity.
- Have experience running and debugging PHP applications at scale.
- Understand filesystems, networks, memory management, kernel internals, and their relationship to services.
- Have deep operational and maintenance experience with large, complex public-facing web hosting systems.
- Be able to autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions for different problems and hosting requirements.
- Demonstrate attention to detail and a focus on operational excellence.
- Be available for 2–3 weeks of post-COVID travel per year to meet teammates in person.
Responsibilities
- Plan proactively and make sound architectural decisions to maximize service availability and uptime.
- Automate infrastructure operations and respond rapidly to failures.
- Optimize server-side and client-side interactions to improve service speed.
- Work with third-party services where necessary.
- Monitor and secure services for users and employees, including real-time response.
- Maintain data integrity and backups to support disaster recovery.
- Reduce friction for Automattic developers by providing timely answers to their questions.
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