Staff WordPress Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Aug 06, 2026
This job expires in: 22 days
Job Summary
Offering a remote full-time opportunity, the Staff WordPress Engineer will set technical direction for platform architecture, lead cross-team consolidation and migration efforts, and drive automation of operational tasks while collaborating closely with engineering managers and product teams.
Key responsibilities
- Set technical direction for a platform area, defining the target architecture and migration path
- Lead consolidation and migration work across existing systems while ensuring backward compatibility
- Drive automation of operational tasks, improving provisioning, configuration, and maintenance processes
Required qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep expertise in PHP, including modern PHP 8.x
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams with experience in setting direction
- Deep WordPress expertise, including hooks, filters, REST API, and plugin architecture
- Genuine comfort with Linux, including process management and system performance analysis
- Experience in automating operational tasks through shell scripting and familiarity with the hosting stack
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