Software Engineer at Automattic

United States

$210k - $275k

<p>POSITION DUTIES: Responsible for developing and optimizing high-performance distributed systems that power search and discovery across billions of Tumblr posts.</p> <p>The Software Engineer will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design and maintain architectures that support efficient development and deployment of new features and optimizations.</p> <p>Day-to-day job duties include:</p> <ul> <li>Enhance Tumblr’s Search and Dashboards, implementing new signals and features, and building scalable data solutions to enhance content relevance and user experience;</li> <li>Explore and implement new signals and features to improve content quality and relevancy; Launch A/B tests and perform analysis to validate hypotheses, and build tools to enable continuous experimentation;</li> <li>Build out new content datasets using Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Kafka, Druid, Flink and/or Spark;</li> <li>Maintain and optimize a fleet of Elasticsearch servers via Kubernetes to ensure search and discovery services operate efficiently; and</li> <li>Continuously improve and refine search quality and relevance.</li> </ul> <p>POSITION REQUIREMENTS: Requires at minimum a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field or foreign equivalent<br/>followed by 2 years of Progressively responsible experience in a software engineering role.</p> <p>Experience must include:</p> <ul> <li>Two (2) years experience deploying, maintaining, and scaling production search systems;</li> <li>Two (2) years experience with Elasticsearch, Solr, or Lucene;</li> <li>Two (2) years experience in PHP, Java and/or Scala;</li> <li>Two (2) years experience in Information Retrieval and/or algorithms;</li> <li>At least one (1) year of experience with Hadoop and MapReduce, including frameworks such as Spark; and</li> <li>At least one (1) year of experience in Airflow, Kafka, or Flink.</li> </ul> <p><br/>Role permits full-time telecommuting from anywhere in the U.S. Position requires less than 24% (i.e., not more than several days) of incidental travel to various<br/>locations for team building and business strategization a few times per year. Travel may be within the U.S. or internationally.</p> <p>RATE OF PAY: $210,000- $275,000/year <br/>SCHEDULE: M-F, 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week <br/>ADDRESS OF EMPLOYMENT: 632 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 <span>#LI-DNI</span></p><p><strong>About Automattic</strong> </p> <p>Now in <a href="https://timeline.automattic.com/">our 20th year</a>, we’re the people behind <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a>, <a href="https://href.li/?http://woocommerce.com/">WooCommerce</a>, <a href="https://href.li/?https://www.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>, <a href="https://href.li/?http://simplenote.com/">Simplenote</a>, <a href="https://href.li/?http://jetpack.com/">Jetpack</a>, <a href="https://href.li/?http://longreads.com/">Longreads</a>, <a href="https://href.li/?https://dayoneapp.com/">Day One</a>, <a href="https://href.li/?https://www.pocketcasts.com/">PocketCasts</a>, <a href="https://www.beeper.com/">Beeper</a>, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.</p> <p>We’re a distributed company with more than 1400 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages. Enriched by this diversity, we’re united by a singular mission: to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source. In short, we help maintain a balance in society, creating and continually refining powerful tools people can use to compete fairly—regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/Automattic">We believe in Open Source</a>, and the vast majority of our work is available under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL</a>. Automattic is a <a href="https://mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/automattic-inc/">Most Loved Company</a> and <a href="https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/">Disability Confident Committed</a>. (<a href="https://happinessengineer.blog/2022/09/08/happiness-for-everyone-working-with-a-disability-at-automattic/">Here’s what that might mean for you</a>.) Learn more about our dedication to <a href="https://href.li/?https://automattic.com/diversity-and-inclusion/">diversity, equity, and inclusion</a> and our <a href="https://automattic.com/automattician-resource-groups/">Employee Resource Groups</a>.</p> <p>If you need disability-related accommodations during the application or interview process, please <a href="https://automattic.com/disability-related-accommodation-request/" target="_blank">fill out this form</a>. We are committed to ensuring an accessible hiring process for all candidates. </p> <p>To learn about how we handle your data, please review our <a href="https://automattic.com/privacy/" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a>.</p> <p>You can track your application status and more at <a href="https://my.greenhouse.io/users/sign_in" target="_blank">MyGreenhouse</a>. </p> <p><em>All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.</em></p>