WordPress Platform Engineer: Site Reliability

Tenna; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (US)

Competitive compensation

Paid Time Off & Volunteer Time Off

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Tenna is hiring a Web Platform Engineer to own the technical health of our WordPress-based website. You will manage hosting, plugins, security, performance, and the marketing stack integration with HubSpot.

You will work with Front-End to scope technical work, provide realistic estimates, and document runbooks. Remote-US with East-coast preference; 5+ years of backend WP experience required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional back-end web development with substantial WordPress experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, web development, or related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Experience supporting a B2B SaaS marketing site and a demand generation team is a plus.
• Exposure to marketing operations or revenue operations is a plus.
• Strong PHP and MySQL, fluency with WordPress APIs (hooks and filters, REST API, WP-CLI).
• Experience in a version-controlled, staging-to-production workflow with change management and rollback capability.
• Experience with Elementor at a technical level, including performance and markup considerations.
• Hands-on SEMrush experience for site health monitoring, audits, backlink remediation, and issue triage.
• Demonstrated ownership of website security: hardening, vulnerability management, backups, incident response.
• Experience with managed WordPress hosting (WP Engine), CDNs, caching layers, and DNS management.
• Technical SEO fluency: Google Search Console, crawl diagnostics, schema markup, redirects, site migration integrity.
• Hands-on GA4 and Google Tag Manager implementation, plus consent management and privacy requirements.
• API integration experience, ideally including HubSpot or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with WCAG 2.2 AA and accessibility work required to support compliance.
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools and secure code review practices.
• Clear written communication to explain tradeoffs, risk, and timelines to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong documentation habits and repeatable processes.

Responsibilities

• Owns the WordPress back end including custom post types, taxonomies, fields, and plugin/theme functionality.
• Maintains a disciplined plugin strategy and upgrade cadence for PHP, WordPress core, themes, and plugins, tested on staging.
• Maintains local, staging, and production environments with version control and documented deployment workflows.
• Owns site reliability and infrastructure end-to-end: uptime monitoring, caching, CDN, DB optimization, and backups.
• Owns website security end-to-end: hardening, vulnerability scanning, MFA/SSO, and incident runbooks.
• Ensures privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA) and accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) remediation.
• Leads technical SEO: crawlability, sitemaps, schema, SEMrush monitoring, backlink remediation, and GSC diagnostics.
• Manages tracking layers (GA4, GTM, HubSpot) and server-side tagging as appropriate.
• Builds and maintains integrations between WordPress, HubSpot, and marketing systems via APIs/webhooks.
• Documents architecture, credentials, processes, and runbooks; establishes QA standards and pre-release checklists.

Skills

PHP

MySQL

WordPress APIs

Elementor

GA4

Google Tag Manager

HubSpot

APIs & Webhooks

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

WP Engine

Git

HubSpot

CDN

DNS management

SEMrush

Job description

Tenna is hiring a Web Platform Engineer to own the technical health of our WordPress-based website. You will manage hosting, plugins, security, performance, and the marketing stack integration with HubSpot.

You will work with Front-End to scope technical work, provide realistic estimates, and document runbooks. Remote-US with East-coast preference; 5+ years of backend WP experience required.