It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!

LOCATION: KRAKÓW OR REMOTELY FROM POLAND

We’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

WP Engine powers digital experiences for over 150,000 customers in 140 countries. Over 5% of all internet traffic visits a WP Engine site each day! We are the leader in enterprise WordPress sites and are leading the digital transformation for businesses and organizations of all sizes and industries.

What’s cool about this job?

Have you ever wondered how a small team supports the infrastructure needed to host thousands of websites? Our software engineers build systems that automate services at scale. Using new 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.

Day to Day

• Building and running a robust cloud-based infrastructure to power our growing application platforms.
• Evaluating and optimizing the architecture of cloud-based systems and services for high availability, scalability and high performance.
• Using industry best practices, methodologies and state-of-the-art solutions in the process of a continuous improvement of WP Engine’s products and services.
• Reducing toil by automating repetitive and error-prone tasks.
• Enhancing and fine-tuning observability services to aid engineering and support efforts.
• Optimizing CI/CD pipelines for performance, coverage, and reliability.
• Diving into specific technology roadblocks and uncovering how we can make our platform more performant, resilient, and reliable.

Your Expertise and Passion

• Passionate about SRE principles!
• Experience working in Agile engineering teams.
• Demonstrable experience working with any (or all) of the following in a production environment: AWS, Kubernetes, GCP, serverless computing, relational databases, network/cluster storage.
• Good understanding of web server components: Linux, Varnish, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP.
• Experience in building and running production-ready systems and applications at scale.
• Experience with the following tools: Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, TICK Stack, Grafana, Datadog, Google Data Studio.
• Proficient in Python and shell scripting. Familiarity with Go will be a plus.
• Experience with observability/monitoring-alerting, computer network technologies, TLS certificates and Web Application Firewalls (WAFs).
• Computer Science Degree or Equivalent.

The Perks and Benefits

• Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)
• Health Benefits (100% Paid Employee Medical, Dental, and Vision, dependent premium covered at 50%) 
• 100% Company paid Life & Risk insurance 
• Retirement Employee Pension Plan PPE (with 5% employer contribution)
• 1000 PLN for glasses reimbursement 
• 100% paid sick leave for first 33 days of absence
• 26 days of paid time off per year for everyone 
• Quarterly Company wellness days
• Access to on-demand fitness and wellness through Wellable platform
• Free and confidential access to Employee Assistance Program through LifeWorks
• One-time payment of 2050 PLN for home office stipend
• 400 PLN /month wellness allowance to spend on whatever you want!

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.