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Automattic | Remote | Full-time | Multiple roles | $110-$210k+

We're looking for great engineers to help us build, grow, and maintain products used by over a billion people each month across WordPress.com, WooCommerce, WordPress VIP, Jetpack, Tumblr, Beeper & Texts.com, Day One, Pocket Casts, and many more.

If you love the open web, open source, radical problem ownership, and simple over pure solutions, Automattic is probably the place for you.

Exceptional Generalist

  * solves problems across any level of the stack, in any codebase
  * endlessly curious about how things work – infrastructure, language and libraries, product and business
  * comfortable with using mostly PHP and JavaScript, no need to have serious experience with them
  * apply at https://join.a8c.com/enghn

Systems Engineer

  * removes friction between developers and shipping software
  * owns availability, performance, and security
  * shares code, experience, and knowledge both internally and externally
  * apply at https://join.a8c.com/syshn

Staff+ Data Scientist

  * *HN exclusive* – not announced publicly anywhere else!
  * partners with business and product teams to help them make better decisions or attribute impact of product changes
  * drives foundational data science projects across the organization
  * has experience in a similar role in an organization at a similar scale
  * ping ines@ for more info

…or find something else on https://join.a8c.com/allhn

>>photom+(OP)
Just passing by to thank you guys for all the hard work towards one of the web pillars of the past 20 years. It is truly remarkable and inspiring.

>>photom+(OP)
Automattic has an outstanding interviewing process. Fully recommend!

>>photom+(OP)
> Exceptional Generalist

is such an interesting job title.

>>sva_+3z
Isn't it just a euphemism for eating shit?

>>yard20+OC
10x > 100x > Exceptional > supernova

>>photom+(OP)
I had no idea the same people behind Wordpress were behind WooCommerce and Jetpack AND Tumblr. What a wild amount of productivity in one place! Keep up the excellent work.

>>Nathan+eM
well, those were acquisitions. but yes, automattic is a great company

>>photom+(OP)
Are previous applications for other roles considered or should I submit again?

>>scary-+1p
Could you share more about it?

>>gcjbr+RP1
It's mostly explained on their hiring page [1]. It's a Slack interview, a take-home code test, followed by a paid trial. I've found all stages to be very humane compared to the ice-cold leet code style interviews.

[1] https://automattic.com/how-we-hire/

>>yard20+OC
Could be, but that's a niche some people like. I'd rather work 60 hours on stuff that matters than 10 on stuff that doesn't.

>>yard20+OC
Dunno about the exceptional modifier but I've always thought a rotating generalist role at a company would be cool. Unblock detail xyz on project abc, then move on, repeat.

>>photom+(OP)
@ines

I'm interested in the data scientist position, what's the next step?

>>photom+(OP)
how to ping ines@?

>>photom+(OP)
I believe I will be a good fit for the Data Scientist role but I am not sure what you mean by pinging ines@. Where should I do that?

In any case ines@ if you are reading this please can you tell me the next steps?

>>photom+(OP)
I am also interested in the role!

>>rcshub+lI5
The first step is to apply.