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WordPress VIP is the digital platform of choice for the world’s top brands and publishers. Our expertise running performant, secure, and stable applications at scale enables our clients to power high-touch digital experiences with ease. Our platform combines the unparalleled WordPress user experience with enterprise-grade infrastructure and world-class support, serving billions of web requests per day. As one of the most used and ubiquitous software platforms on Earth, security and reliability are critical.

We’re looking for Systems Engineers to join our fully remote team, where you’ll play an essential role in developing, building, and maintaining our growing global infrastructure. If you enjoy solving complex problems and are eager to empower development teams working at some of the most high-profile, high-traffic sites out there, come and join us.

We’d love to chat with you if you have:

• Experience with implementing and supporting Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
• Experience working on a large-scale system to make it performant, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant.
• Experience in Linux systems administration and a deep understanding of how web-related services (load balancers, high availability solutions, web servers, databases, caching daemons, etc.) work.
• Proficiency in information systems concepts, system administration, and cloud platforms.
• Proficiency with some or all of: NGINX, Docker, PHP, Golang, LUA, MySQL, ELK.
• Working knowledge of network technologies such as: TCP/IP stack, IPv6, DNS, Anycast, firewalls (iptables), and TLS.
• A passion for open source software.
• A willingness to learn!

Bonus points if you can guess what each dot represents on the map below and tell us the methodology you used to figure it out.
https://automattic.com/automattic-data-centers

Curious who works in engineering at Automattic? Meet our Code Wranglers Brandon, Jeremy, Mark, Jennifer, Roy and Kat! These are exciting times at WordPress VIP and you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape the future of our platform. Join us! We look forward to hearing from you.

If you have some time and want to learn more about how we do things, watch this ScaleConf video.

BENEFITS

• Open vacation policy (no set number of days per year). We encourage all employees to take the time they need for vacation, to pursue their own interests, to stay healthy, and to spend time with friends and family.
• Home office setup and coworking allowances. Working from a coffee shop? You can use your coworking allowance for the requisite latte!
• We happily provide or reimburse hardware and software you’ll need, as well as books or conferences that promote continued learning.
• Company-sponsored life insurance.
• Open parental leave (includes maternity, paternity, and adoption). If you’ve been with us for 12 months, your leave is fully paid.
• WordPress-branded laptop at your four-year anniversary. A spiffy set of wireless headphones at your seven-year anniversary.
• Paid two to three-month sabbatical encouraged every five years.
• We cover all costs of company travel, so dust off that passport! Your team will get together one to three times per year in locations around the globe. Note: All company travel is currently suspended due to COVID-19.
• Other benefits are country-specific, and include health, vision, and dental insurance; matching retirement/pension contributions; childcare vouchers; income protection; travel insurance; and discount offers.

WHAT TO EXPECT

We know applying to jobs can be stressful and we want to ease the stress by giving clear expectations up front about what to expect from our process. We’ve outlined everything you need to know here including all of the steps in the process as well as how we approach hiring. We’re always iterating so if you happen to join us in the process, please feel free to offer feedback on what else we can include there!

Job Benefits:

• Work from anywhere in the world – we're fully distributed!
• Open vacation policy – take the time you need
• Home office setup allowance
• Coworking allowance – work in a dedicated space or a café
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Paid sabbatical every five years
• We cover costs of travel to locations around the world 2-3 times/year
• Additional country-specific benefits including paid health insurance

Automattic’s experimentation platform squad (ExPlat) is looking for a self-directed backend engineer to help take ExPlat to the next level! You will partner with our resident engineers and data scientists to maintain and enhance a rock-solid platform for running and analyzing experiments, ranging from simple A/B tests to more exotic approaches.

You can learn more about the project by reading our recent data.blog and checking out Abacus, ExPlat’s open-source UI.

What You’ll Do:

• Contribute well-tested code across the ExPlat stack, from the Python/SQL/Scala data processing pipelines, through the PHP/WordPress production back-end, to the JavaScript/React UI and assignment clients.
• Help with architecture and product decisions within ExPlat.
• Support internal users through experiment and code reviews.
• Integrate into a multi-functional team of software engineers, data scientists, and data engineers.

Who You Are:

• You have production experience building backend applications with a variety of languages, frameworks, and systems.
• You understand backend challenges around scalability, caching, database load management, and API design.
• You have experience working with PHP.
• You are familiar with multiple programming languages and paradigms.
• You have experience with test automation at all levels of the test pyramid.
• You are knowledgeable about design patterns, testability, and maintainability.
• You care about code quality and best practices and appreciate robust code review processes.
• You are results-oriented, humble, and have an equal willingness and ability to learn, and teach.
• You have strong interpersonal skills with experience working autonomously in a diverse, cross-functional team.

Bonus:

• You have experience running A/B tests.
• You have WordPress programming experience.
• You have experience working with data and visualization.
• You have at least a basic understanding of machine learning and statistics.
• Most of your workday is between Western US and Western Australia hours.

Job Benefits:

• Work from anywhere in the world – we're fully distributed!
• Open vacation policy – take the time you need
• Home office setup allowance
• Coworking allowance – work in a dedicated space or a café
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Paid sabbatical every five years
• We cover costs of travel to locations around the world 2-3 times/year
• Additional country-specific benefits including paid health insurance

We're the people behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, Jetpack, and WooCommerce. We're looking for Growth Engineers to come join us on the MarTech (Marketing Technology) team for WordPress.com.

The team makes growth, and the analysis of growth, more effective and more efficient. We use tools and technology to encourage ideas, tackle sophisticated problems through team initiatives across all of Automattic, and most importantly, drive growth of the business through rapid experimentation.

We're a relatively new and rapidly growing team with the opportunity to drive substantial change! We need a marketing analytics specialist to join us who can experiment with creative ideas and help us tackle sophisticated business problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with a growing, cross-functional, and highly collaborative engineering team to unlock the potential of WordPress.com’s marketing technology stack, and the teams who use it across the whole company.
• You will own data ingestion for all marketing analytics. Including, but not limited to, pageviews tracking, event tracking, conversion tracking, paid media conversions, affiliate referrals, and peer referrals.
• Be the top tier specialist in marketing analytics (data ingestion), including AMP analytics, GDPR, user privacy, cookies, localStorage, browser privacy features, and security initiatives.
• Learn our existing platform landscape and find ways to enhance our marketing analytics platform and improve data integrity. You'll also build and maintain automated tests that monitor the health of marketing analytics.
• Be responsible for crafting comprehensive documentation (internal field guide articles) that effectively enable self-serve use of our marketing analytics platform.

You

• Have 5+ years of practical hands-on experience in full-stack web development using PHP/MySQL/JavaScript. You've worked with REST APIs, and you're strong on best practices for security and performance.
• Have 5+ years of marketing analytics, marketing operations, or digital marketing experience. Experience in Google Analytics , Google Tag Manager, Segment, or other marketing analytics or customer data platform. Experience with data visualization tools. Advanced in Microsoft Excel. Excellent analytical skills and ability to provide meaningful insights from data.
• Have experience using agile development tools (e.g., GitHub, Trello). You know how to break big problems down into smaller pieces. You thrive on moving items to the Done column at a healthy pace.
• Highly collaborative, you love participating in code reviews, and you enjoy spirited discussions about architecture, design, user privacy, and performance. You're also comfortable working with others who are not engineers. You're confident, a great listener, and you seek to simplify the sophisticated.
• Love to experiment and tackle problems. You’re product-minded, growth-focused, and oriented to details. You’re happy to question assumptions and back your recommendations with data.

Extra Credit

• Startup experience; e.g., you've been a technical founder, co-founder, growth specialist, or have worked with a marketing team before.
• Experience building or supporting sites powered by WordPress, or WordPress theme or plugin development.
• Experience with a JavaScript library like React, or a superset of JavaScript (e.g., TypeScript).
• Experience with Looker - a data modeling tool.
• Experience with Hadoop, Hue (Impala/Hive queries).
• Having worked with affiliate program software (e.g., iDevAffiliate, CJ, Impact Radius, ShareASale, WP Affiliate, etc.), or peer referral software.
• Knowledge of data visualization tools.
• Experience with automated test frameworks, Selenium, Puppeteer, PHPUnit, Jest, Mocha, Circle CI, Travis, CI, Jenkins, or other.
• Having experience in languages other than PHP/JS, such as Python.
• Email marketing experience is a plus; e.g., Iterable, MailChimp, AWeber.
• Experience in paid search; e.g., Google Ads (AdWords), or Bing.
• Experience working with Google Ads Scripts for automation.
• Having worked with or as a social media marketing company.

How to Apply

Does this sound exciting? If yes, click the Apply button below and fill out our application form. Let us know what you can contribute to the team. We are lucky to receive many applications for this position, so try to make your application stand out.

Please include an answer to at least one of the following mini-challenges in your cover letter. Applicants who do not submit their cover letters will not be considered.

Mini Challenge 1

When you make a GET request to: https://public-api.wordpress.com/wpcom/v2/work-with-us with a header of X-future: automattician you will receive a secret. What is that secret?

Mini Challenge 2

<?php

$a=['Automattia','WordPresq','Jetpaci','WooCommercc'];

// Add additional code that corrects the spelling of these

// popular brand names using the least amount of code possible.

Job Benefits:

• Work from anywhere in the world – we're fully distributed!
• Open vacation policy – take the time you need
• Home office setup allowance
• Coworking allowance – work in a dedicated space or a café
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Paid sabbatical every five years
• We cover costs of travel to locations around the world 2-3 times/year
• Additional country-specific benefits including paid health insurance

At Automattic, we believe in making the web a better place. We are currently looking for several Android and iOS specialists to help us take our native WordPress, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and Simplenote apps to the next level.
We want people to be able to blog, post, and manage their site or shop wherever they are, taking advantage of the things that make our mobile devices our most important ones, such as media and notifications. We work closely with multi-functional product teams to improve the WordPress, Tumblr, and WooCommerce experience on phones and tablets — both the apps and their underlying APIs and systems.

About you:

• You are highly collaborative and you love participating in code reviews and discussions about architecture or design.
• You are passionate about and accomplished in Android or iOS software development; in particular, Kotlin and Swift.
• You are knowledgeable about design patterns and testability; experience with Espresso, performance testing and unit testing is very welcome.
• You are thoughtful about product design, with good user experience instincts.

Some of our teams are also looking for experience in one of the following areas:

• Native e-commerce apps.
• Social or content-oriented native apps.

Extra credit:

• Experience with React Native development.
• UI design skills and knowledge of platform design specifications.
• PHP, WordPress, and REST API backend programming experience.
• Data analysis experience, and understanding of how analytics can influence product decisions.
• Knowledge of tooling and build systems.
• Open-source contributions, particularly involvement in open source (or other) communities.

Speaking of interests and skills, here are some areas in which you can grow and have further impact in the future at the company:

• Leadership – we offer a variety of leadership options to those who have interest, including becoming a team lead and managing releases.
• Learning and development – we have a generous personal development budget and encourage you to grow your skills through courses, books and conferences.
• Architecture – we encourage developers to develop expertise in the systems they work with, guide their evolution and mentor other developers working on them.
• Engineering effectiveness – we believe in helping other developers become more effective through tools, practices, cross-team collaborations, and process improvements.

How do we work?

• We’re kind to each other and our users – we strive to build a positive, supportive, and inclusive culture of cohesive teams focused on delivering value to our customers.
• We work as a global and distributed workforce resulting in a unique way of working built around our creed.
• We offer flexible work arrangements allowing our team members to work when they feel best.
• We open-source! We’re cool with open-sourcing everything except passwords, or secret keys.
• We ship often, deploying many times daily with the help of peer code review, continuous integration, and our global workforce in over 70 countries.
• We welcome collaboration, and you can be involved in any discussion across our many communication channels.

Job Benefits:

• Work from anywhere in the world – we're fully distributed!
• Open vacation policy – take the time you need
• Home office setup allowance
• Coworking allowance – work in a dedicated space or a café
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Paid sabbatical every five years
• We cover costs of travel to locations around the world 2-3 times/year
• Additional country-specific benefits including paid health insurance

We’re the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and more! We are looking for Senior Quality Engineers to help us bring the dream of democratizing the web to life.

What have we worked on recently?

• WordPress.com is our flagship product. 38% of the web is built on WordPress. 
• Gutenberg is a new block-level editor with clean abstractions for users, too, not just developers.
• Jetpack is a plugin that brings cloud-scale features to self-hosted sites and our latest addition is Backup, think git for WordPress sites.
• WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce platform on the web.
• WordPress, Simplenote, and other native apps for Android and iOS.
• To view more of our recent work, check out our longer product list on Automattic.com.

Our QE’s are embedded in multi-functional product teams to advocate quality and continuous improvement at every stage of the software development process. Currently, we are looking to expand our team and hire 3 Senior Quality Engineers across WordPress.com, Tumblr, and WooCommerce.

Let‘s talk about you. The Senior Quality Engineer position might be a good fit if you:

• Deeply understand test methodologies, such as functional, integration, regression, globalization, localization, and performance testing.
• Comfortable designing, developing and maintaining reliable automated test suites that run as part of the project CI and/or nightly build system. Our test suites are primarily in Javascript, Swift, Java, and Kotlin. 
• Are disciplined, with an eye for detail, and have excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Triage efficiently, prioritizing issues by the highest impact and scope. You know how to get the right bugs fixed.
• Are comfortable in a collaborative, agile, and distributed development environment.
• Are unabashedly customer focused.
• Are an evangelist for quality who is willing to spread proven methodologies and quality mindset to the rest of the engineering org. You are always looking for a better way to do things.
• Can quickly assimilate whatever technologies are needed for a project.
• Have the ability to objectively evaluate overall release quality and advise on go/no-go decisions.
• Are highly collaborative, love participating in code reviews and discussions about architecture or design.
• Are thoughtful about product design, with good user experience instincts.
• Are open and able to travel 3-4 weeks per year to meet up with your teammates in person. Important note: at the moment all company travel has been suspended due to COVID-19. Automattic is monitoring government and health agency reports closely and responding however possible to prioritize safety and well-being for our team and communities.

Extra Credit

• WordPress programming experience.
• Are familiar with mobile testing, both iOS and Android.
• Open source contributions or contributions to programs designed to help underrepresented people enter the tech field.

These are exciting times at Automattic and you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape the future of our products. Join us! We look forward to hearing from you.

HOW TO APPLY

Does this sound interesting? If yes, click the Apply button below and fill out our application form. In your cover letter, let us know what you can contribute to the team. Proofread! Make sure you spell and capitalize WordPress and Automattic correctly. We are lucky to receive many applications for this position, so try to make your application stand out.

Job Benefits:

• Work from anywhere in the world – we're fully distributed!
• Open vacation policy – take the time you need
• Home office setup allowance
• Coworking allowance – work in a dedicated space or a café
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Paid sabbatical every five years
• We cover costs of travel to locations around the world 2-3 times/year
• Additional country-specific benefits including paid health insurance

We are the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and more! We are looking for a full-stack Data Engineer with a head for business to join our WooCommerce team!

Communication with and empathy for our colleagues is a key part of this job – curiosity about the puzzles they face is a requirement. Data can be unruly: you’ll need to be prepared to face uncertainty and provide your best guess sometimes – your work will be as much about architecting and improving data pipelines as it will be about creating excellent reporting and solving business problems.

The Woo Data & BizOps team needs a new Data Engineer. We help inform our business and product strategy by providing insights through data analysis.

As The Data Engineer on our team, you will:

• Work with business leads, analysts, data scientists, and fellow engineers to build data products that empower better decision-making.
• Architect and improve data pipelines using technologies like Hadoop, Hive, Impala, and Airflow.
• Deeply understand business drivers to craft automated, easy to use reports and data visualizations in our BI tool (we use Looker).
• Perform exploratory business analysis and deliver clear and actionable written reports.
• Use your JavaScript, PHP, and SQL skills to understand and improve our data sources.
• Be constantly raising data quality. That includes auditing sources, documenting issues, driving resolutions together with other teams, and implementing well-documented, performant, and tested improvements.

About Automattic

At Automattic, we believe in making the web a better place. We’re a distributed company with more than 1200 Automatticians in 75+ countries speaking 90+ different languages. Our common goal is to democratize publishing so that anyone with a story can tell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.

We believe in Open Source and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL.

How to Apply

Does this sound interesting? If yes, click the Apply below and fill out our application form. In your cover letter, let us know what you can contribute to the team.

Job Benefits:

• Work from anywhere in the world – we're fully distributed!
• Open vacation policy – take the time you need
• Home office setup allowance
• Coworking allowance – work in a dedicated space or a café
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Paid sabbatical every five years
• We cover costs of travel to locations around the world 2-3 times/year
• Additional country-specific benefits including paid health insurance

We’re building new ways to interact with WordPress. They’re simple, fast, and highly usable. They’re written in the latest web technologies and are used by millions of people. We want your help to expand our reach and keep our approach fresh. 

What have we worked on recently?

• Gutenberg is a new block-level editor with clean abstractions for users, too, not just developers.
• Jetpack is a plugin that brings cloud-scale features to self-hosted sites and our latest addition is Rewind, think git for WordPress sites.
• WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce platform on the web
• To view more of our recent work, check out our longer product list on Automattic.com.

How do we work?

• We’re kind to each other and our users – we strive to build a positive, supportive, and inclusive culture of cohesive teams focused on delivering value to our customers.
• We work as a global and distributed workforce resulting in a unique way of working built around our creed. 
• We offer flexible work arrangements allowing our team members to work when they feel best.
• We open-source! We’re cool with open-sourcing everything except passwords, or secret keys.
• We ship often, deploying many times daily with the help of peer code review, continuous integration, and our global workforce in over 70 countries.
• We welcome collaboration, and you can be involved in any discussion across our many communication channels. 

The Senior JavaScript Engineer position might be a good fit if you have:

• A rock-solid understanding of the core JavaScript language, HTML5, and CSS3. Experience working on accessibility is a plus.
• Familiarity with a server-side language like PHP, Ruby, or Python.
• Proficiency developing well-structured web applications using modern JavaScript tools like React and Redux.
• A real passion for crafting experiences that users rave about.
• The ability to iterate and ship ideas quickly, with maximum autonomy and teammates ready to support you. 

Extra credit:

• WordPress programming experience.
• Open source contributions or contributions to programs designed to help underrepresented people enter the tech field.
• Experience working on accessibility.
• Data analysis experience, and understanding of how analytics can help with product decisions.
• Knowledge of tooling and build systems.

Speaking of interests and skills, here are some areas in which you can grow and have further impact in the future at the company:

• Leadership – we offer a variety of leadership options to those who have interest, including becoming a team lead and managing releases.
• Learning and development – we have a generous personal development budget and encourage you to grow your skills through courses, books and conferences.
• Architecture – we encourage developers to develop expertise in the systems they work with, guide their evolution and mentor other developers working on them.
• Engineering effectiveness – we believe in helping other developers become more effective through tools, practices, cross-team collaborations, and process improvements.

Diversity & Inclusion at Automattic

We’re improving diversity in the tech industry. At Automattic, we want people to love their work and show respect and empathy to all. We welcome differences and strive to increase participation from traditionally underrepresented groups. Our D&I committee involves Automatticians across the company and drives grassroots change. For example, this group has helped facilitate private online spaces for affiliated Automatticians to gather and helps run a monthly D&I People Lab series for further learning. Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Automattic, though our dedication influences far more than just Automatticians: We make our products freely available and translate our products into and offer customer support in numerous languages. We require unconscious bias training for our hiring teams and ensure our products are accessible across different bandwidths and devices. Read more about our dedication to diversity and inclusion.

Curious who works in engineering at Automattic? Meet our JavaScript Engineers – Lena and Riad!

APPLICATION PROCESS

What to Expect

We know applying to jobs can be stressful and we want to ease the stress by giving clear expectations up front about what to expect from our process. We’ve outlined everything you need to know here including all of the steps in the process as well as how we approach hiring. We’re always iterating so if you happen to join us in the process, please feel free to offer feedback on what else we can include there!

Job Benefits:

• Work from anywhere in the world – we're fully distributed!
• Open vacation policy – take the time you need
• Home office setup allowance
• Coworking allowance – work in a dedicated space or a café
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Paid sabbatical every five years
• We cover costs of travel to locations around the world 2-3 times/year
• Additional country-specific benefits including paid health insurance

WordPress doesn’t try to keep its users inside walled gardens, a rare thing in a world that is dangerously moving away from the open web. Instead, WordPress gives them the freedom to build a business website, an online store, or a personal blog – the way they like it. Big sites or small, using the community-run open-source project or Automattic’s WordPress.com, vanilla or customized with hundreds of plugins, WordPress users always get to own and control their data, their expression, and their freedom.

What have we worked on recently?

• Gutenberg is a new block-level editor with clean abstractions for users, too, not just developers.
• Jetpack is a plugin that brings cloud-scale features to self-hosted sites and our latest addition is Rewind, think git for WordPress sites.
• WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce platform on the web.
• To view more of our recent work, check out our longer product list on Automattic.com.

How do we work?

• We’re kind to each other and our users – we strive to build a positive, supportive, and inclusive culture of cohesive teams focused on delivering value to our customers.
• We work as a global and distributed workforce resulting in a unique way of working built around our creed. 
• We offer flexible work arrangements allowing our team members to work when they feel best.
• We open-source! We’re cool with open-sourcing everything except passwords, or secret keys.
• We ship often, deploying many times daily with the help of peer code review, continuous integration, and our global workforce in over 70 countries.
• We welcome collaboration, and you can be involved in any discussion across our many communication channels.

Enough about us, let‘s talk more about you. The Software Engineer position might be a good fit if you:

• Have production experience with several programming languages. We mostly use PHP and JavaScript at Automattic – you should either be familiar with them already or the idea of using them on a daily basis should not be a blocker for you.
• Have experience working on a large-scale system. Making it faster, more scalable, and fault-tolerant.
• Know about systems architecture.
• Are highly collaborative and you love participating in code reviews and discussions about architecture, or design.
• Are passionate about and experienced in software development; in particular, advanced PHP knowledge is a plus.
• Are knowledgeable about design patterns and testability; having experience with testing frameworks, performance testing, and unit testing is very welcome.
• Are thoughtful about product design, with good user experience instincts.
• Are open and able to travel 3-4 weeks per year to meet up with your teammates in person. 

Extra credit:

• WordPress programming experience.
• Open-source contributions or contributions to programs designed to help underrepresented people enter the tech field.
• Experience working on accessibility.
• Familiarity with JavaScript.
• Data analysis experience, and understanding of how analytics can help with product decisions.
• Knowledge of tooling and build systems.

Speaking of interests and skills, here are some areas in which you can grow and have further impact in the future at the company:

• Leadership – we offer a variety of leadership options to those who have an interest, including becoming a team lead and managing releases.
• Learning and development – we have a generous personal development budget and encourage you to grow your skills through courses, books, and conferences.
• Architecture – we encourage developers to develop expertise in the systems they work with, guide their evolution and mentor other developers working on them.
• Engineering effectiveness – we believe in helping other developers become more effective through tools, practices, cross-team collaborations, and process improvements.

These are exciting times at Automattic and you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape the future of our products. Join us! We look forward to hearing from you.

Curious who works in engineering at Automattic? Meet our Code Wranglers – Brandon, Jeremy, Mark, Jennifer, Roy, and Kat!

What to Expect

We know applying to jobs can be stressful and we want to ease the stress by giving clear expectations upfront about our process. We’ve outlined everything you need to know here including all of the steps in the process as well as how we approach hiring. We’re always iterating so if you happen to join us in the process, please feel free to offer feedback on what else we can include there!

How to apply? 

Head directly to our website and read the instructions to apply there!  

Job Benefits:

• Work from anywhere in the world – we're fully distributed!
• Open vacation policy – take the time you need
• Home office setup allowance
• Coworking allowance – work in a dedicated space or a café
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Paid sabbatical every five years
• We cover costs of travel to locations around the world 2-3 times/year
• Additional country-specific benefits including paid health insurance