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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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