About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer based in United States.
Responsibilities
- Maximize service availability and uptime through proactive capacity planning, sound architectural decisions, automation, monitoring, and rapid incident response.
- Design, build, operate, and maintain large-scale web infrastructure with a strong focus on reliability and operational excellence.
- Manage and optimize Nginx environments, including advanced routing configurations, load balancing, performance, and high availability.
- Operate and maintain large MySQL and MariaDB deployments while protecting performance, uptime, and data integrity.
- Run, troubleshoot, and optimize PHP applications operating at significant scale.
- Investigate and improve interactions between application services and lower-level systems, including filesystems, networking, memory management, and kernel behavior.
- Optimize server-side and client-side performance to improve the experience of users across global services.
- Work with third-party services and infrastructure components when required to improve reliability, performance, and service delivery.
- Maintain strong security practices through proactive monitoring, enforcement, real-time incident response, and robust data integrity and backup strategies.
- Develop disaster recovery capabilities and ensure systems can be restored effectively when critical failures occur.
- Remove operational friction for developers by providing infrastructure expertise, rapid technical guidance, and effective solutions to hosting and deployment challenges.
- Independently architect, prototype, implement, and maintain solutions for complex infrastructure and hosting requirements.
- Collaborate with distributed engineering teams and participate in periodic in-person team gatherings, including approximately 2–3 weeks of travel per year.
Requirements
- Significant professional experience managing large-scale, public-facing web infrastructure and complex hosting environments.
- Deep hands-on experience with Nginx, including advanced routing, load balancing, high availability, and performance optimization.
- Strong experience operating large MySQL or MariaDB deployments with a focus on reliability, performance, and data integrity.
- Proven experience running and debugging PHP applications at scale.
- Strong understanding of lower-level systems and their relationship to web services, including filesystems, networking, memory management, and kernel internals.
- Experience with complex public-facing infrastructure where availability, performance, security, and operational resilience are critical.
- Ability to independently design, prototype, troubleshoot, and maintain infrastructure solutions with limited supervision.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a strong commitment to operational excellence.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a small, highly integrated engineering team while taking ownership of individual technical areas.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills within a distributed, asynchronous environment.
- Willingness to travel approximately 2–3 weeks per year for in-person collaboration with teammates.
Conditions
- Salary range of $120,000–$180,000+ USD annually.
- Global salary structure, with compensation paid in local currency.
- Potential for compensation beyond the stated range based on the contribution and impact expected from the successful candidate.
- Straightforward, competitive base salary without complex variable compensation.
- Fully remote work environment.
- Open vacation policy with no fixed number of vacation days per year.
- Country-specific benefits and programs based on local eligibility.
- Opportunity to work on infrastructure supporting extremely large-scale global web traffic.
- Periodic opportunities for in-person collaboration and international travel.
- Exposure to complex systems engineering challenges across infrastructure, performance, reliability, and security.