Support Engineer, WordPress VIP

Headquarters: Remote URL: https://automattic.com/ 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 troubleshoot