Staff DevOps Engineer

### Who you are
- You lead by shipping, not by planning. You thrive on solving technical bottlenecks
- Deep experience with CI/CD systems: TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, or similar. Familiarity with containerized test environments
- Strong in at least two of: PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Bash
- Track record of improving build or test reliability at scale. You’ve made a CI pipeline meaningfully faster and can show the before/after—with the metrics to prove it
- Comfortable debugging flaky tests, parallelism issues, and infrastructure edge cases
- Clear async communicator who documents decisions and gets work done across time zones
- Fluent with AI-assisted development workflows. You use tools like Claude Code or Copilot daily, and can lead others in adopting AI for testing, triage, and infrastructure work
- Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision
- Experience eliminating flakiness in a large test suite—and you can talk about what you learned
- Experience with WordPress, PHP, and MySQL
- Open-source contributions
- A history of breaking a stagnant CI culture and restoring engineering trust in the build

### What the job involves
- Come help us build and maintain world-class CI/CD infrastructure across Automattic. We’re looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join the QualityOps team
- You’ll own the systems that keep engineers shipping fast and confidently: CI pipelines, test reliability, build tooling, and developer experience. Your work will directly impact how 1,500+ people ship software that powers 40%+ of the web
- Own CI/CD infrastructure. Manage builds and pipelines, guide teams to the right CI tool for the job, and keep everything fast and reliable. You aren’t afraid of legacy configurations; you enjoy the archeology required to modernize massive, long-running build systems
- Eliminate flakiness. Dig into flaky tests, parallelism side effects, and infrastructure edge cases until green means green
- Curate the test suite for speed. Aggressively prune tests that don’t test anything, speed up tests that are unnecessarily slow, and enforce quality gates on what gets added
- Improve developer experience by “walking the floor” to look for friction. Find what slows engineers down and fix it before they have to ask. Balance centralized reliability with developer autonomy
- Enable engineers to own their tests. Track build times, work with teams to write better and faster tests, and provide frameworks that help engineers improve CI on their own. You’re a force multiplier, not a bottleneck
- Build release tooling: deploy pipelines, pre-release test gating, and build automated steps that replace manual coordination

### Benefits
- Professional Development · “I will never stop learning” is part of our company creed. From leadership development to improving your writing skills, we have a comprehensive list of programs and resources available to everyone, and we’re also happy to pay for any hardware, software, books, or conferences that promote continued learning.
- Career Coaching · Coaching sessions to help you set and achieve professional goals are available for all Automatticians – team members and team leads. This benefit resets each calendar year.
- Time off · Our open vacation policy (no set number of days per year) is designed to help you to be at your best! There is no minimum or maximum, but we encourage you to take at least 25 days of time off per year.
- Home Office · We offer home office setup and coworking allowances. Working from a coffee shop? You can use your coworking allowance for the requisite latte!
- Wellness · We offer mental wellness benefits including an Employee Assistance Program, a monthly subscription to a mindfulness app (including Calm, Headspace, Ten Percent Happier, Waking up, and Insight timer), and virtual ergonomic consultations and access to a wealth of virtual ergonomic tips, stretch videos and yoga exercises.
- Parental leave · Open parental leave (including maternity, paternity, LGBTQ+, and adoption for all parents). If you’ve been with Automattic for 12 months, your leave up to 6 months is fully paid.
- Anniversary Awards · Paid three-month sabbatical encouraged every five years and other cool anniversary surprises.
- Automattic Stock · Check out Buying and selling Automattic Stock!
- Life Insurance · Company-sponsored life insurance.
- Compensation · We attract talent around the world and pay global salary ranges. We prioritize internal equity and review your pay every 12-18 months.
- Sabbatical · Working at Automattic provides numerous opportunities to learn new skills, grow in your career, and have a significant and positive impact on the lives of millions. It also offers the rare (and juicy!) benefit of a paid, three-month sabbatical every five years.