Engineering team that contribute to open source on Key Values

Automattic

The people behind WordPress.com, JetPack, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and more

Remote Global
We believe open source is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation.

Automattic’s roots are open source. Several of our engineering teams actively contribute to open source and view it as part of our four freedoms. As our CEO Matt Mullenweg puts it, “Good ideas aren’t the sole province of groups of people behind high walls, and software shouldn’t be either.”

Of course, WordPress.org is the base of the software used to power WordPress.com. And WordPress.com is synced nearly daily with the WordPress trunk. An Automattic team works full-time on the open source publishing platform WordPress, and we make public our discussions about our work.

We contribute to a number of projects (also including WP for iOS, WP for Android, P2 Theme, BuddyPress, bbPress, WP Job Manager, and WordCamp US), making most of our work available via the GPL.

However, we also understand (thanks to our engineering team’s recent user study on tech hiring) that our open source commitment can be a double-edged sword for some candidates and employees. We recognize the time commitment and open source culture isn’t for everyone and, as Cate Huston, lead of the Developer Experience team wrote, “We’re considering how to improve our messaging on this important value for our company.”

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27 Open Positions
Grouparoo

Open source framework to sync your customer data with external tools

Remote (US)
Grouparoo is building open source tools, so almost everything we do is in the open.

We know that open-source is the best channel for developers to adopt new tools, and we want to be as transparent with our customers as we can. To that end, we embrace open source tools and workflows like Git, GitHub, and Pull Requests in our everyday work. Your work will be directly attributable back to you and users can directly converse with you as a result. For example, when Evan rolled out the Postgres plugin, he had a great discussion with a customer on the pull request about some of the nuances around Postgres SSL and authentication. We were able to build a more robust product that met the customer’s needs.

We encourage our users to contribute and communicate with us using these same tools. Our customer support process is via GitHub Issues, our Roadmap is public, and we even modify our employee handbook with pull requests. Grouparoo is “all-in” on open source.

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3 Open Positions
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Engineering team that contribute to open source

We believe open source is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation.

Grouparoo is building open source tools, so almost everything we do is in the open.

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