# Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Hiring organization: [WP Engine](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/wp-engine)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/c25b2854-30dc-42fc-b5f7-9756e499fa47

Listed on WP Engine's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Salary: 244000 – 335500 PLN per year

## Summary

A senior backend engineer role focused on designing and operating scalable cloud infrastructure services for a WordPress platform company serving millions of customers globally. This position suits engineers with strong fundamentals in distributed systems and production reliability who want full ownership of services across their entire lifecycle.

_Our summary, not WP Engine's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datadog, Docker, Go, Google BigQuery, gRPC, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, PHP, Prometheus, Python, REST APIs, Ruby, SOLID Principles, SQL, Terraform

## Required

- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Backend and cloud architecture design experience
- REST/gRPC API design
- Relational database (SQL) expertise
- Experience with GCP and AWS cloud environments
- Understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architecture
- Infrastructure as Code practice
- Automated testing discipline
- Code review and technical documentation practices

## Nice to have

- Experience with Go, PHP, Ruby, or Python
- GCP services (GKE, Pub/Sub, IAM, BigQuery, Cloud SQL)
- AWS services (EC2, S3)
- Kubernetes and Docker experience
- Terraform proficiency
- Observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Operations, Prometheus, Datadog)
- AI-assisted engineering tool adoption

Apply on WP Engine's site: https://wpengine.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WP_Engine/job/Krakow/Senior-Software-Engineer--Platform_JR102823