Senior Software Engineer

We engage the most inspired minds to do their best work wherever they work best—powering the freedom to create worldwide.

WP Engine empowers companies and agencies of all sizes to build, power, manage, and optimize their WordPress websites and applications with confidence. Serving 1.5 million customers across 150+ countries, the global technology company provides premium, enterprise-grade solutions, tools, and services, including specialized platforms for WordPress, industry-tailored eCommerce and agency solution suites, and developer-centric tools like Local, Advanced Custom Fields, and more. WP Engine’s innovative technology and industry-leading expertise are why 8% of the web visits a WP Engine-powered site daily. Learn more at wpengine.com.

We engage the most inspired minds to do their best work wherever they work best—powering the freedom to create worldwide.

WP Engine empowers companies and agencies of all sizes to build, power, manage, and optimize their WordPress websites and applications with confidence. Serving 1.5 million customers across 150+ countries, the global technology company provides premium, enterprise-grade solutions, tools, and services, including specialized platforms for WordPress, industry-tailored eCommerce and agency solution suites, and developer-centric tools like Local, Advanced Custom Fields, and more. WP Engine’s innovative technology and industry-leading expertise are why 8% of the web visits a WP Engine-powered site daily. Learn more at wpengine.com.

What's cool about this job?

Have you ever wondered how a small team manages the infrastructure needed to host thousands of websites? Our software engineers build systems that automate services at scale. With technologies like custom Kubernetes controllers and cloud functions, we are able to automate the deployment, enhancement, and maintenance of our Kubernetes platform. The team is continuously looking for ways to make our services more scalable, reliable, and resilient; Learning from past decisions and striving to get better every day.

The day to day:

• Building automated, scalable services and systems to power our growing infrastructure

• Collaborating with an agile team that is passionate about new technologies and delivering high quality and timely code

• Working with monitoring and alerting systems to aid engineering and support efforts

• Constantly look for opportunities to automate and optimize

• Work with Kubernetes solutions across various cloud providers such as Azure, AWS, GCP

• Produce quality, testable and maintainable systems with fast feedback loops

• Build and enhance infrastructure for serving WordPress on thousands of servers

• Be customer inspired and work closely with business partners to incrementally deliver positive outcomes through technology

• Develop CI/CD pipelines for pushing code into production
   

Your expertise and passion:

• 5+ years software engineering experience

• Has worked on an agile team and is passionate about SRE principles

• Proficient in Python or Go programming 

• Expertise working with Kubernetes and containerization

• Experience working with Kubernetes orchestration on hosted cloud service like AWS, GCP or Azure

• Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.

• Understanding of the common WordPress technology stack is desirable: Linux, Varnish, Apache/Nginx, MySQL, and PHP

• Has experience (or interest) in: configuration management systems, monitoring systems and computer network technologies

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or Equivalent Experience
   

Perks and Benefits:

• Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)

• Health Benefits (100% Paid Employee Medical, Dental, and Vision)

• Pension Scheme with a match

• Life Insurance and Income Protection (100% Paid)

• Supplemental Maternity & Paternity Pay

• Employee Assistance Program

• Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off)

• One-time Home Office Stipend

• Company Wellness Days

At WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible vie