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WP Engine is the most trusted WordPress technology company, powering over 1.5M digital experiences in 150+ countries for businesses of all sizes. WP Engine’s all-in-one platform enables customers to design, build, power, and manage extraordinary WordPress, eCommerce, and headless sites—all thanks to a nonstop commitment to innovation, award-winning WordPress expertise, and a set of core values that guides us every day.

What's Cool about this Job.

As a consequence of our focus on the customer, we have experienced amazing growth. This growth provides many opportunities to tackle hard problems at scale, to deliver new products that continue to make WP Engine the platform of choice for online agility. You will play an essential role in taking our platform to the next level, both in scale and functionality. This is your chance to make your mark on a company that is the leader in its industry.

We see our culture as an advantage and believe that it is meaningful to hire the best and ensure that we provide an environment where the best get better. If you enjoy solving problems, are a hard worker, and an excellent teacher and teammate, you may be the engineer we are looking for!

You will develop and enhance tools and services that improve the WordPress Developer’s user experience with the WP Engine platform. These tools are designed to integrate with DevOps processes and are based on technologies that include SFTP, SSH, Git, and other DevOps-related software and services. Prior experience crafting, maintaining, and enhancing DevOps processes is beneficial. The ideal candidate will also possess experience with, or a solid working knowledge of, Site Reliability Engineering; establishing SLAs and SLOs, and monitoring SLIs to ensure reliability. Code configuration, deployment, change management, and automation of operational tasks are critical to the success of the Engineer and their team.

The Day to Day.

• Design, write, test, integrate, and maintain services that are resilient, robust, secure, and perform at scale for tens of millions of end users
• Write clean, maintainable code; improve test coverage and build deployment pipelines to safely and rapidly push code
• Be customer inspired and work closely with business partners to incrementally deliver positive outcomes through technology
• Constantly look for opportunities to automate and optimize
• Research new technologies and incorporate them into new and existing systems and products
• Be a phenomenal teammate to the other members of your scrum team

Your Expertise and Passion.

• Hands-on experience working on distributed systems (in any language)
• Experience in building and running production-ready systems and applications at scale.
• Evaluating and optimizing the architecture of cloud-based systems and services for high availability, scalability and high performance.
• Natural problem solving abilities, an inquisitive personality, and an eagerness to seek solutions to big problems
• A passion for working alongside customers to recommend solutions that best fit their needs
• Use data to understand the trade-offs and risks between deploying features and system stability (Google SRE mindset)
• Shown history of continuous learning and ability to stay ahead of technology trends
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or a related field) or equivalent experience

Technical Skills.

• Proficient in Python programming and shell scripting.
• Experience working with at least one of the following cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of web server components: Linux, Varnish, Apache, Nginx, MySQL and PHP.
• Good understanding of TCP/IP networking, High-Availability, SSL/TLS certificates and cloud infrastructure security.
• Experience with one or more of the following tools: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, GitHub, Jenkins.
• Writing queries for MySQL/PostgreSQL and the utilization of client-side tools to manage RDBMS systems (such as MySQL Workbench or SQuirreL SQL)
• Production experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP), microservices
• Experience with large scale system integration through APIs, including long-running cloud functions
• Familiar working in an agile environment using Scrum methodologies
• Passionate about SRE principles, DevOps culture and cloud computing!

The Perks and Benefits:

• Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)
• Luxmed Complex Gold Package (100% paid for employee; 50% for dependents)
• 100% Company paid Life & Risk insurance 
• Retirement Employee Pension Plan PPE (with 5% employer contribution)
• 1000 PLN glasses reimbursement 
• 100% paid sick leave for first 33 days of absence
• Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off)
• 1 floating holiday (take your birthday off!)
• One-time 2080 PLN payment to set up your home office
• 4 Company Wellness Days
• Free subscription to Calm
• On-going education through LinkedIn Learning, Workday Learning and our Career Growth Portal
• Supplemental Paid Family Leave

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At WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique. WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. ​