Sr. Software Engineer (Python/Go, Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure)

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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?

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

• Deploying monitoring and alerting systems to aid engineering and support efforts

• Diving into specific technology roadblocks and uncovering how we can make our platform more performant, resilient, and reliable

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

• Build and maintain APIs to aid in the management of our production environment

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

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

• Iteratively improve observability for globally distributed systems via metrics, monitoring and alerting

• Develop CI/CD pipelines for pushing code into production

Your expertise and passion

• 4+ years software engineering experience

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

• Expertise working with Kubernetes and containerization

• Experience with public cloud infrastructure with AWS or GCP and building automation using their APIs.

• Understanding of infrastructure, horizontal scaling, self-healing architectures, service discovery, High Availability and all key aspects of observability

• Proficiency is programming with Python and Go

• Proficient with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Salt, Chef, or Puppet

• Has an understanding of the common WordPress technology stack: Linux, Varnish, Apache/Nginx, MySQL, and PHP

• Has experience (or interest) in: configuration management systems, monitoring systems, computer network technologies, TLS certificates and Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)

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

The Perks & Benefits

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

• Great Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance)

• Fertility Benefits (IVF/Fertility drug coverage)

• HSA Company contribution $750 for employee / $1500 for family

• 401(k) with a 4% match

• Disability Insurance 

• Paid Family and Caregiver’s Leave

• Employee Assistance Program

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

• One-time $500 payment to set up your home office

• 4 Company Wellness Days a year

• 1 floating holiday

• $100 monthly wellness allowance to spend on what you want

• Free subscription to Calm

• Pet Insurance

• On-going education through LinkedIn Learning, Workday Learning and our Career Growth Portal

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