At WP Engine, we are on a mission to help our customers win online. Whether that's helping an aspiring entrepreneur to turn her hobby into an online business or a multinational corporation to launch a new campaign in weeks instead of months, our platform is there to help them win - whatever that means for them.

As a consequence of our focus on the customer, we have experienced explosive growth. This growth provides many opportunities at WP Engine to tackle hard problems at scale, to deliver new products that continue to make WP Engine the platform of choice for online agility. We are looking to add team members to play an essential role in taking our platform to the next level, both in scale and functionality, by helping lead our microservices transition. This is your chance to make your mark on a company that is the leader in its industry.

Go, Python, containerization, service mesh and cloud services are some of the technologies we use. We hire for talent and potential. We are seeking forward-thinking people to help develop orchestration services and better patterns for deploying and managing services for both engineers and customers.

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 are intelligent, phenomenal at solving problems, a hard worker, and an excellent teacher and teammate, you may be the engineer we are looking for!

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

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or a related field) OR equivalent experience
• 7+ years experience working on distributed systems (in any language)
• Production experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP), microservices, distributed tracing, and service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) 
• Natural problem solving abilities, an inquisitive personality, and an eagerness to seek solutions to big problems
• A passion for working alongside customers to determine what solution best fits their needs
• Use data to understand the trade-offs and risks between deploying features and system stability (Google SRE mindset)
• Track record of large scale system integration through microservices, including migrating from a monolithic architecture to microservices
• Experience leading teams in crafting and writing high quality and highly available software applications (in any language)
• Shown history of continuous learning and ability to stay ahead of technology trends

HELPFUL EXPERIENCE

• Proficient programming in Go and Python
• Experience solving problems with multi-tenancy and distributed systems at scale in the cloud, hosted across international data centers
• Familiar working in an agile environment using Scrum methodologies
• Database and concurrency optimization or data streaming

At WP Engine, we 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 or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by emailing ([email protected]).