Systems Engineer
Senior Systems Engineer at Automattic responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a highly available, secure, and performant global infrastructure across 30 data centers, leveraging automation, monitoring, and best practices to support billions of page views each month.
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:
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:
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We are looking to expand our team and aim to reflect and expand on the diversity of Automattic ians currently working with us. At Automattic , we value diversity and know that different perspectives will ensure our team is innovative and creative thinking.
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Posted June 21, 2026