WordPress VIP, the enterprise division of Automattic, is the world’s leading agile content management platform. Our suite of open solutions and services brings the ease and agility of WordPress to the world’s largest enterprises. Our large and growing ecosystem of technologies, services, and integrations is designed to bring the freedom and power of open source to our customers, who include Meta, CNN, Salesforce, and hundreds more.

The Support Engineer role is responsible for providing advanced technical support to our enterprise customers, serving as an escalation point for complex issues that require deeper investigation. In this customer-facing role, you will handle challenging debugging scenarios, troubleshoot intricate application and platform issues, and help resolve problems that go beyond standard support workflows. You’ll work primarily through Zendesk tickets, collaborating closely with Support Engineers and Customer Success Engineers to ensure timely, high-quality resolutions while building your technical expertise and customer relationships.

You’ll serve as a technical resource for both customers and internal teams, bridging support and specialized engineering functions in high-impact situations. Support is provided 24/7, so scheduled weekday and weekend shifts, on-call rotations, as well as some holiday and evening availability, will be a requirement. Our customers are global and rely on our team to provide expedient support at any time of day.

About You

• You are a technical problem-solver who thrives on helping customers. You may have a background in WordPress development, technical support, or agency work, and you’re ready to take on more complex challenges while continuing to build your engineering skills. You enjoy the variety of working with a wide spectrum of interesting global customers.
• You never stop learning. You have a willingness to rapidly learn new technologies and deepen your expertise in areas like PHP, JavaScript, and the WordPress ecosystem. You’re excited by the challenge of debugging unfamiliar applications and expanding your technical toolkit.
• You are curious and love to dig deeper. When an issue is escalated to you, you’re not satisfied with surface-level fixes. You’re driven to understand the root cause and to document what you learn, so the team can benefit from your investigation.
• Communication is our oxygen and the basis of everything we do. You have excellent written English and can communicate technical concepts to customers and colleagues, even when things go wrong. You know how to translate complex debugging findings into clear, actionable guidance. You like actively solving problems, and helping others solve them too. You enjoy collaborative troubleshooting, whether that’s pairing with a Support Engineer on a tricky ticket, or consulting with a CSE on a deeper platform issue. Customer support, and what you learn solving customer problems, drive you.
• You are passionate about customer success and team growth. You love working directly with customers and find satisfaction in mentoring teammates. Experience in a technical support environment—especially enterprise WordPress support—is highly valued.

Technical Requirements

• WordPress expertise with a solid understanding of core concepts, including themes, plugins, hooks and filters, WP-CLI, imports, and common troubleshooting patterns. Familiarity with the block editor (Gutenberg) and ecommerce solutions (WooCommerce) is a plus.
• Proficient in reading and troubleshooting code in multiple languages, including HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript. You should be comfortable navigating unfamiliar codebases to identify issues and able to write small code snippets or patches when needed.
• Understanding of web technologies, including REST APIs, HTTP, DNS, domain management, and version control (primarily Git). Familiarity with reverse proxy configurations and caching layers is helpful but not required.
• Familiarity with software engineering practices, including coding standards, source control workflows, and basic testing concepts. Experience working alongside engineering teams or contributing to team repositories is valued.
• Solid understanding of performance and scalability concepts in WordPress environments, including common causes of slow queries, caching strategies, and resource optimization. Security awareness and familiarity with common vulnerabilities are welcome but not required.
• Comfortable using monitoring and debugging tools such as New Relic, Kibana, or similar platforms to investigate application behavior, identify errors, and trace performance issues.

Requirements

• US-based position. Candidates must be based in the United States, undergo background checks as required, and hold American citizenship.
• Self-motivated and collaborative work ethic. Self-starters who love taking initiative and seeing things through to completion do well on our teams. 
• Strong troubleshooting abilities. You can take complex problems and break them down systematically, identifying root causes through methodical investigation. You know how to gather the right information, isolate variables, and work toward resolution—or clearly document your findings when escalating.
• Experience in customer-facing technical roles. You’ve worked directly with customers in a support, agency, or consulting environment, and understand how to balance technical accuracy with clear, empathetic communication. Experience in enterprise WordPress support or a similar environment where customers expect fast, personal responses is an advantage.

What to Expect

Your day-to-day work will include:

• Providing high-quality technical support and consultation through Zendesk tickets and customer calls.
• Handling escalated customer issues that require deeper investigation, including urgent tickets and complex debugging scenarios.
• In-depth debugging that requires close examination of logs, analysis of customer codebases, and collaboration with engineering teams.
• Providing technical guidance to customers on WordPress best practices, performance optimization, and common implementation patterns.
• Building and updating internal and customer-facing documentation.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of our platform, processes, and customer experience.

Support is provided 24/7, so scheduled weekday and weekend shifts, as well as some holiday and evening availability, will be a requirement. There will be on-call rotations involving work with government contracts.

Salary range: $55,000 to $85,000 USD – Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency.

We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic. Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated.

We’re pleased to offer a straightforward, competitive base salary, providing financial clarity without complex variable components. This isn’t your typical work-from-home job: we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page. And check out these links to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves. 

What to Expect from Our Process

We know that applying to jobs can be stressful, and we want to ease the anxiety by providing clear expectations up front about what to expect from our process. We’ve outlined everything you need to know here, including all of the steps in the process, as well as how we approach hiring. We’re always iterating, so please feel free to offer feedback on what else we can include there to improve the hiring experience.

About the Team

We are foremost engineers, though our backgrounds and experiences in life and career vary. We typically have a deep background in either WordPress development itself (some of us are long-time developers/contributors, experienced themers, or plugin developers) and/or the web (others of us are devs with backgrounds in media or general technology). All of us have a deep interest in code and learning, plus a commitment to open source, WordPress, and the future of the open web.

As passionate advocates for our customers, we are unafraid of ambiguous or challenging situations involving code, people,, or both. We understand the wider and human contexts of technical decisions and are able to communicate effectively across cultures and organizations, even in difficult situations.. We are most engaged when solving truly interesting problems collaboratively. We care about our customers and share a commitment to helping them achieve their business and creative goals. #LI-DNI

At Automattic, our Happiness Engineers are the creators and protectors of the customer experience. We take this seriously – every Automattic employee, regardless of role, spends their first two weeks in support and does a one-week rotation annually.

Happiness Engineers introduce our customers to the possibilities of the open web. We teach, instruct, and solve technical problems so that our customers can achieve their publishing and commerce goals. We also advocate for our customers internally, to help build better tools and products to serve their ever-changing needs. 

You can read more about Automattic’s company values here. 

About the Job

As a Happiness Engineer (“HE”), you'll spend around six self-scheduled hours per day helping customers via email and live chat, with constant peer support through Slack. We're fully remote but communicate heavily – expect continuous interaction with both customers and teammates. HEs typically work 1-2 weekend days per month (with equivalent flex days off during the week). This is a snapshot of what the work looks like today, but customer service needs and norms are constantly evolving, and our daily work evolves with it, so your week might look quite different six months from now.  

Beyond customer support, you'll help elevate our entire customer experience by identifying problems before they arise, finding efficiency improvements, and piloting new services like onboarding calls. We want people who thrive on change and jump at new initiatives, plus those who love mentoring peers and making everyone around them better.

Our ideal hire has built a career in customer service and is genuinely motivated by having meaningful, substantive conversations with customers every single day. We’re looking for ambitious, motivated people who want to create a world-class experience every time our customers use our products.

Career Growth as a Happiness Engineer

We view support as a long-term career, not a stepping stone. Some of our most valued HEs have been here for a decade or more. We also strongly believe in growing and challenging our employees, and we promote internally for leadership (including senior leadership). In addition to leadership, Happiness work spans a broad range of functions, and new teams and roles are being introduced on a regular basis. In this role, you’ll have many opportunities to build new skillsets and to work on new initiatives with product, marketing, talent, data, and more. Our Happiness Engineers have transitioned to roles in every possible capacity, both within Happiness and all across Automattic.

What We’re Looking For

• WordPress and/or WooCommerce experience - While you don’t need to have a background in professional WordPress support, you do need hands-on experience beyond just building a couple of personal sites. Be specific about your background in your application.
• Customer support experience - You've worked in technical support, customer experience, or customer success, ideally with high-volume end users, and loved it.
• Initiative and impact - You've gone beyond daily tasks to improve things at your company, with measurable results. Boosted retention? Created efficient solutions? Delivered strategic insights? Tell us.
• Exceptional communication - You build trust with developers, agencies, enterprise clients, and non-technical users alike. Fluent English is required (multilingual is a bonus).
• Self-starter mentality - You're independent, you never miss deadlines, and you thrive in a high-autonomy environment. You learn on the job and manage your workload without heavy oversight.
• Unique expertise - Whether you're a deeply technical troubleshooter, eCommerce expert, experienced leader, or operational genius, tell us how your background makes you perfect for this role. We value diverse experiences!
• AI fluency - You actively use AI tools to do better work, not just as a search engine. You've moved beyond prompting into building workflows, automations, or tools that create real value — for yourself or others. Whether you've shipped a Claude Code project, designed team-level processes around AI, or done something in between, you understand that AI is changing how we work.

Salary range: $40,000-$68,000 USD - Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency. We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic. Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated. 

We’re pleased to offer a straightforward, competitive base salary, providing financial clarity without complex variable components. This isn’t your typical work-from-home job: we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page. And check out these links to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves. #LI-DNI

WordPress VIP, the enterprise division of Automattic, is the world's leading agile content management platform. Our suite of open solutions and services brings the ease and agility of WordPress to the heart of the world’s largest enterprises. Our large and growing ecosystem of technologies, services, and integrations is designed to bring the freedom and power of open source to our customers, which include Meta, CNN, Salesforce, and hundreds more.

The Customer Success Engineer role is responsible for providing advanced technical support and consultation to our enterprise customers. In this customer-facing role, you will handle complex technical challenges, provide architectural guidance, and solve mission-critical problems with customer deployments and applications. You’ll work primarily through Zendesk tickets, while also participating in customer calls, to advance longer-term technical initiatives and build trusted customer relationships.

You’ll serve as a technical resource for both customers and internal teams, bridging support and specialized engineering functions during high-impact situations. Support is provided 24/7, so scheduled weekday and weekend shifts, as well as some holiday and evening availability, will be a requirement. Our customers are global and rely on our team to provide expedient support at any time of day.

About You

• You are an engineer who thrives on solving real-world problems. You may have a background in full-stack development, enterprise support, or media technology, and you’re ready to apply your technical skills directly with a wide spectrum of interesting global customers.
• You never stop learning. You have a willingness to rapidly learn new technologies, and are excited by the challenge of debugging complex, unfamiliar applications.
• You are curious and love to get to the root cause of an issue. You’re not satisfied with surface-level fixes and are driven to solve problems not once, but twice: fixing the immediate issue, and preventing it from happening again.
• You have excellent written English and can effectively communicate technical concepts to customers and colleagues, sometimes under stressful circumstances. Communication is our oxygen and the basis of everything we do.
• You like actively solving problems. You are excited by engaging regularly in deep, collaborative problem-solving, and motivated by what you learn along the way.
• You are obsessed with helping others succeed, and love working directly with customers. Experience in an enterprise support environment is highly valued.

Technical Requirements

• WordPress expertise with a solid understanding of the underlying codebase, themes, plugins, block editor, e-commerce, WP-CLI, hooks and filters, imports, and other advanced WordPress concepts.
• Proficient in reading, writing, and troubleshooting code in multiple languages, including HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript.
• Understanding of web technologies including REST APIs, HTTP, DNS, domain management, reverse proxy, and version control (primarily Git, also SVN).
• Experience with software engineering practices, including coding standards, team coding practices, source control, build processes, testing methodologies, and cloud infrastructures.
• Advanced understanding of scalability, performance, and security issues in enterprise environments.
• Proficiency with monitoring and debugging tools such as Kibana and New Relic.

Requirements

• US-based position. Candidates must be based in the United States and undergo background checks as required, and hold United States citizenship.
• Excellent communication skills. We’re a distributed team, so frequent and clear written communication is crucial. You must be able to explain complex technical issues in accessible ways.
• Self-motivated work ethic. Self-starters who love taking initiative and seeing things through to completion do well on our teams.
• Advanced troubleshooting abilities. You can take complex problems and break them down into manageable pieces with elegant solutions.
• Experience in customer-facing roles in an enterprise support environment.

What to Expect

Your day-to-day work will include:

• Providing high-quality technical support and consultation through Zendesk tickets and customer calls.
• Handling complex and urgent customer situations, including incident response and escalations.
• In-depth debugging that requires close examination of logs, analysis of customer codebases, and collaboration with engineering teams.
• Providing architectural guidance to customers on WordPress implementations.
• Building and updating internal and customer-facing documentation.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of our platform, processes, and customer experience.

Support is provided 24/7, so scheduled weekday and weekend shifts, as well as some holiday and evening availability, will be a requirement.

Salary range: $70,000-$150,000 USD.  Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency.

We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic. Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated.

This isn’t your typical work-from-home job—we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. Read more about our compensation philosophy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page. And check out these links to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves. #LI-DNI