Remote careers at Automattic: Inside the happiness and data engineering teams

Looking for a remote career where you can work from anywhere and still make a real impact? At Automattic, fully distributed teams across more than 90 countries support millions of people as they publish, build businesses, and grow online.

Data and customer support both play a central role in that work.

🎥 In this video, Carly Stambaugh, Analytics Engineering Lead, and Kel Asante, Happiness Engineer, share what it’s like to work at Automattic, how their teams collaborate, and what makes remote life at Automattic both impactful and uniquely meaningful.

💡 Here’s a sneak peek at what you'll learn:
✔️ What the Happiness Engineering team does and why they’re vital to the user experience
✔️ How the Data Foundations and Data Partners teams build models, dashboards, and insights that power decision-making
✔️ How Automattic creates trust and connection across async, distributed teams
✔️ Why this work matters, and how it helps turn user ideas into real-world impact

💬 As Carly explains, their goal is simple: “Partner with the business to help them make impact from the data.” And for Kel, the best part is the human side of the work: “This kind of support can be so meaningful and very rewarding.”

📢 Ready to take the next step? Explore open roles at Automattic and apply today!

🔗 Connect with the Automattic engineering team

💡 More about Automattic:

Automattic are the people behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and more. Founded in 2005, they were one of the first companies to pave the way in remote work culture. The company’s 1,400+ people hail from 79 countries and speak 99 languages. Though the workforce is intellectually and geographically diverse, they’re united by a shared passion to democratize publishing and commerce so that anyone with a story can tell it, and anyone with a product can sell it. More than 1 billion people use Automattic’s products every month, and they also contribute directly to WordPress, the open source project that powers over 40% of the internet.
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