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Salary: USD 70,000 - 170,000 / annual
Automattic is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join its global distributed team. The company builds WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Gutenberg, Tumblr, and other products that power millions of websites worldwide.
You'll work on a diverse product ecosystem where AI is increasingly central to new developments. Recent focus areas include AI-powered website builders, WooCommerce's e-commerce platform, Gutenberg's block editor, and Tumblr's social network. The role involves contributing to products built primarily with PHP and JavaScript, though the company values engineers comfortable learning across multiple languages and paradigms.
Automattic operates as a fully distributed, globally-spanning workforce across 70+ countries. The company emphasizes open-source development, shipping frequently (multiple deployments daily), peer code review, and continuous integration. You'll work in a collaborative environment with flexible arrangements and opportunities for internal mobility and professional development.
The ideal candidate has production experience with multiple programming languages and frameworks, understands system abstractions and their costs, and has worked at scale—either on backend performance or managing complexity with diverse user bases. You should care deeply about code quality, enjoy debugging as a challenge, and be willing to travel 3-4 weeks annually for in-person team meetings.
Automattic values engineers who obsess over details, understand layers of abstraction, think critically about engineering trade-offs, and are excited about contributing to the open web.
