We're looking for the world's best systems engineers to help build and maintain the infrastructure that supports over a billion people each month across our entire line of products and services such as WordPress.com, WooCommerce, WordPress VIP, Jetpack, Tumblr, Texts.com, Day One, Pocket Casts and many more.
Here are the goals of the team that you would join:
* Remove as much friction as possible between Automattic developers and their goal of shipping software. When there are questions, we can provide answers in a matter of minutes, sometimes seconds.
* Make Automattic services as fast as possible through optimization of server-side and client-side interactions.
* Maximize the availability and uptime of all services through proactive planning, sound architectural decisions, and rapid response to failures.
* Ensure our services are safe and secure for both our users and employees through a combination of proactive monitoring and enforcement, real-time response, and ensuring data integrity/backups to allow recovery from disasters.
* Share our code, experience, and knowledge, both internally and externally whenever possible. Internally, this is usually accomplished via Slack, IRC, internal blogs, and code reviews. Externally, we try to blog publicly, speak at conferences, contribute to open source software, and release our own software under an open source license.
* Control costs through careful selection of technology partners and prudent negotiations of pricing and contracts. We work with 3rd party services where it makes sense, but always look at the big picture and value control and performance over cost.
We're looking for the world's best systems engineers to help build and maintain the infrastructure that supports over a billion people each month across our entire line of products and services such as WordPress.com, WooCommerce, WordPress VIP, Jetpack, Tumblr, and many more.
Here are the goals of the team that you would join:
* Remove as much friction as possible between Automattic developers and their goal of shipping software. When there are questions, we can provide answers in a matter of minutes, sometimes seconds.
* Make Automattic services as fast as possible through optimization of server-side and client-side interactions.
* Maximize the availability and uptime of all services through proactive planning, sound architectural decisions, and rapid response to failures.
* Ensure our services are safe and secure for both our users and employees through a combination of proactive monitoring and enforcement, real-time response, and ensuring data integrity/backups to allow recovery from disasters.
* Share our code, experience, and knowledge, both internally and externally whenever possible. Internally, this is usually accomplished via Slack, IRC, internal blogs, and code reviews. Externally, we try to blog publicly, speak at conferences, contribute to open source software, and release our own software under an open source license.
* Control costs through careful selection of technology partners and prudent negotiations of pricing and contracts. We work with 3rd party services where it makes sense, but always look at the big picture and value control and performance over cost.
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We're looking for the world's best systems engineers to help build and maintain the infrastructure that powers tens of billions of page views and supports over a billion people each month across our entire line of products and services, including WordPress.com, WooCommerce, WordPress VIP, Jetpack, Tumblr, and many more.
As a member of a compact, vertically integrated team overseeing all of Automattic's core services, you'll seize the unique opportunity to foster innovation and enhance our platforms' reliability, scalability, and efficiency. Your skills will be vital in identifying bottlenecks, addressing risks, augmenting infrastructure resilience and performance, and simplifying intricate system design and architectural challenges into scalable solutions.
Automattic is globally distributed and has been since its founding in 2005. Embracing a remote-first work culture, we prioritize flexibility and communication in our collaborative environment.
If you're passionate about simplicity at scale, let us know.
This happens with the https:// vary rarely. The http:// case happens more often. This is one of the complications in adding HSTS headers with includeSubDomains. Right now, the http:// version works as expected, but if we added HSTS with includeSubDomains for "wordpress.com" those URLs would stop working and generate a SSL error.
Somewhat related - if you have a mapped/custom domain on WordPress.com, even though we are strongly no-www[0] the "www" will work over HTTPS, assuming that DNS for the sub domain points to our servers[1]
> I believe it's breaking podcast feeds being served with WordPress.com, because iTunes doesn't support Let's Encrypt certificates.
Do you have an example? We have already implemented workarounds for iTunes. If they aren't working I would love to know the specifics so we can fix it.
Just the confirmation from Apple's podcaster support team that iTunes doesn't support sites which use Let's Encrypt. (I don't use WordPress.com myself.)
I've just posted a request for examples in popular podcasting groups, and I'll let you know when/if I get responses.
> We have already implemented workarounds for iTunes.
Can you elaborate just a smidge? Is WordPress.com, for example, not encrypting content when it's requested by iTunes? (Thanks!)
We're looking for the world's best systems engineers to help build and maintain the infrastructure that supports over a billion people each month across our entire line of products and services such as WordPress.com, WooCommerce, WordPress VIP, Jetpack, Tumblr, Texts.com, Day One, Pocket Casts and many more.
Here are the goals of the team that you would join:
* Remove as much friction as possible between Automattic developers and their goal of shipping software. When there are questions, we can provide answers in a matter of minutes, sometimes seconds.
* Make Automattic services as fast as possible through optimization of server-side and client-side interactions.
* Maximize the availability and uptime of all services through proactive planning, sound architectural decisions, and rapid response to failures.
* Ensure our services are safe and secure for both our users and employees through a combination of proactive monitoring and enforcement, real-time response, and ensuring data integrity/backups to allow recovery from disasters.
* Share our code, experience, and knowledge, both internally and externally whenever possible. Internally, this is usually accomplished via Slack, IRC, internal blogs, and code reviews. Externally, we try to blog publicly, speak at conferences, contribute to open source software, and release our own software under an open source license.
* Control costs through careful selection of technology partners and prudent negotiations of pricing and contracts. We work with 3rd party services where it makes sense, but always look at the big picture and value control and performance over cost.
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