EDIT: Last day for applications is Friday February 26th at midnight Pacific time. If you’ve been thinking about it send your application in now!
Our company Automattic — which runs WordPress.com, Akismet, VaultPress, and many other services — is hiring interns, specifically to work with us on the WordPress.com VIP team.
WordPress.com VIP provides hosting and support for high-profile, high-traffic WordPress sites, including Time.com, FiveThirtyEight.com, qz.com, search.fb.com, MicrosoftStudios.com, NYPost.com, and more.
We are looking for two engineering interns to join us for the summer, to work on development for the WordPress.com VIP platform. This paid internship runs 12 weeks, and we are flexible on the specific dates.
Where will you be working you may ask? Anywhere! We are a distributed company and are happy if you work from wherever you are — as long as you have a good internet connection.
What will I work on?
We have two different internship roles available.
The performance-related internship will focus on auditing client code for performance improvements, creating a plugin that would help bring performance improvements to the broader WordPress community, and related tasks.
The security-related internship will focus on auditing client code for security improvements, working with clients to make related code changes, surfacing stastics about the types of attacks blocked on VIP, and related tasks.
In both cases the work and your contributions will be tailored to where your own interests lie.
Interested? Complete your application by filling in the form below. In the space provided, introduce yourself and why you’d like to be an intern with our team. Be clear about what you’ve done and what you’re interested in working on. Feel free to use as much space as you need in the form and be sure to give us more information by including links to your online profiles as appropriate.
We’re serious about increasing diversity in the tech industry. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ community, and other communities traditionally underrepresented in this field.
If your application sounds interesting, we’ll schedule an interview (usually written / text chat, since we communicate a lot via text) as a next step. Good luck and thanks for your interest!
Applications are closed. Thank you for your interest!
Josh Betz is a former VIP intern who now works as a code wrangler at Automattic. During his internship he worked on a VIP user management plugin and helped build a new WordPress.com product.