Packet Wrangler

Remote

We are the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, and WooCommerce. We are looking for someone to help us develop, build, and maintain our growing global network infrastructure – currently serving customers from 28 locations on 6 continents.

At Automattic, we operate our own global anycast CDN and origin datacenters at 28 locations. We utilize scripting to automate the interactions with our network infrastructure, primarily in Python. We monitor and optimize network routing performance from each datacenter on an ongoing basis. We utilize strategic BGP peering, routing policies, and community tagging to steer requests from other networks to the closest POP for the lowest latency. We design and operate our network with a target of 100% uptime for our customers, including scheduled maintenances.

See our anycast performance in real time below – each color represents a datacenter.

Check out some of our work with open source tool Elasticsearch: https://developer.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/open-source-netflow-with-elastic-logstash-kibana/.

If you are passionate about network performance and uptime, network scripting, and network automation, we want to hear from you!

Experience we look for:

• At least three years of related experience in a large-scale network engineering operations multi-vendor environment.
• Automating network administration using Python, or another high-level scripting language.
• Comfortable working in a Linux/Unix environment.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP stack, application protocols (DHCP/DNS/HTTPs) and networking concepts (VRRP/VLANs/High Availability/Load Balancing/BGP/IGP/ECMP).
• Operation experience working on IP networking technologies, routers, switches, and the application of routing protocols. (OSPF, BGP, MPLS, RSVP, LDP).
• Network troubleshooting on complex internet routing problems, both internal and external.
• Experience with configuring and operating open source tools for network automation, metric collecting, log collecting, and visualizations.
• Experience with internet routing, eBGP peer relationships, routing policies, and traffic engineering.
• Advanced / expert level traceroute/MTR/tcptraceroute/iperf/tcpdump skills.
• Experience with collecting network metrics using SNMP and streaming telemetry.

Diversity & Inclusion at Automattic

We’re improving diversity in the tech industry. At Automattic, we want people to love their work and show respect and empathy to all. We welcome differences and strive to increase participation from traditionally underrepresented groups. Our D&I committee involves Automatticians across the company and drives grassroots change. For example, this group has helped facilitate private online spaces for affiliated Automatticians to gather and helps run a monthly D&I People Lab series for further learning. Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Automattic, though our dedication influences far more than just Automatticians: We make our products freely available and translate our products into and offer customer support in numerous languages. We require unconscious bias training for our hiring teams and ensure our products are accessible across different bandwidths and devices.

Deadline for applications: 23.04.2020.