Senior Production Engineer

WP Engine; Australia; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Stock Options (Every employee)

Superannuation Program

Employee Assistance Program

Supplemental Maternity & Paternity Pay

Generous Vacation Time

AUS Home Office Stipend

Company Wellness Days

Job summary

WP Engine is seeking a Senior Production Engineer in Australia to lead production operations, improve system design, and drive reliability at scale. You will own infrastructure performance, security, and incident response while mentoring engineers across the org.

You will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to align technical roadmaps with business goals, optimize deployment pipelines, and champion automated, scalable solutions that reduce toil and improve customer experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience building and running production-ready configurations at internet scale.
• Strong system architecture background with distributed microservices and self-healing systems.
• Cloud & containerization expertise with Kubernetes and Docker across public clouds.
• Proficient in Python or Go; scripting and automation skills.
• Deep understanding of modern web serving stacks and automation tools.
• Experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, EFK) for visibility.
• Analytical mindset, strong troubleshooting and RCA abilities.

Responsibilities

• Curate an engineering culture biased toward shipping while upholding high stability, performance, security, and scalability.
• Infrastructure Management across GCP and AWS, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Automation and optimization to reduce toil and accelerate deployments.
• Lead incident and problem management with cross-functional coordination and RCA.
• Manage production changes and patching pipelines safely.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering Management to align technical work with business goals.
• Mentor engineers to grow an internal knowledge ecosystem.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

System design

Programming (Python/Go)

Web serving stack

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Nginx/Apache

MySQL

PHP

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus

Job description

We engage the most inspired minds to do their best work wherever they work best—powering the freedom to create worldwide. WP Engine empowers companies and agencies of all sizes to build, power, manage, and optimize their WordPress websites and applications with confidence. Serving 1.5 million customers across 150+ countries, the global technology company provides premium, enterprise-grade solutions, tools, and services, including specialized platforms for WordPress, industry-tailored eCommerce and agency solution suites, and developer-centric tools like Local, Advanced Custom Fields, and more. WP Engine’s innovative technology and industry-leading expertise are why 8% of the web visits a WP Engine-powered site daily. Learn more at wpengine.com.

Senior Production Engineer

What is Cool About This Job

At WP Engine, we are on a mission to help our customers win online. Whether we’re enabling an aspiring entrepreneur to turn a hobby into an online business or a multinational corporation to launch a new campaign in weeks instead of months, our platform elevates our customers toward success. By focusing on the customer experience, WP Engine has enjoyed spectacular growth, becoming the platform of choice for online agility.

Day to Day Production Leadership

• Curate an engineering culture that is biased toward shipping while maintaining very high standards of stability, performance, security, and scalability.
• Infrastructure Management: Monitor, alert, investigate, and resolve production infrastructure challenges across public cloud environments (including GCP and AWS).
• Automation & Optimization: Actively identify opportunities and implement automated, scalable solutions to optimize code and operational tasks, reducing toil across the platform.
• Incident & Problem Management: Serve as a technical point of contact during critical issues, facilitate cross-functional communication, track alert trends, and perform root cause analysis (RCA) to drive structural improvements.
• Change Execution: Execute production change and security requests, safely managing code deployments and patching pipelines.
• Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering Management to align technical solutions and execution strategies with business goals and roadmap priorities.
• Mentorship: Further an ecosystem of learning and professional development by coaching, mentoring, and leveling up exceptional engineers across the organization.

Your Expertise and Passion Experience

• 5+ years of software engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience building and running production-ready configurations at internet scale.
• System Design: Strong history of system architecture, distributed microservices, and self-healing systems with efficient resource and network utilization.
• Cloud & Containerization: Advanced expertise executing containerized workloads using Kubernetes orchestration and Docker across public cloud hosting providers.
• Programming Languages: Proficient in structural and automated scripting using object‑oriented languages, with strong experience in Python and Go preferred.
• Web Serving Stack: In-depth understanding of the modern web serving stack and infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Linux, Nginx/Apache, MySQL, PHP, Ansible, Terraform).
• Observability: Hands‑on familiarity implementing metrics, monitoring, and alerting systems (such as Prometheus or EFK stacks) to maximize infrastructure visibility.
• Mindset: A forward‑thinking learner with superb analytical, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis capabilities who loves a team‑first environment.

Perks and Benefits

• Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)
• Superannuation Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Maternity & Paternity Pay
• Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn't like time off)
• One-time $745 AUS Home Office Stipend
• Company Wellness Days

Equal Opportunity Statement

WP Engine is an equal opportunities employer. We're a diverse and inclusive set of people brought together by our shared purpose and values.

We see our culture as an advantage and believe in hiring the best and providing an environment where the best get better.

Bring your full self to WP Engine! At WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique.

WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

WP Engine is the leading platform for building experiences on WordPress. We live in an age where established enterprises compete against nimble startups in a race to win online. In this age, experiences are the currency, and audiences expect their digital experiences to be personalized, immediate, and remarkable. To learn more about WP Engine, please visit our careers page: wpengine.careers