Software Engineer, PHP

🕒 July 22

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Vultr

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

🔧 Hardware

💰 $329M Debt Financing - Vultr on 2025-06

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Hardware

Vultr is a global cloud infrastructure provider offering on-demand virtual machines, bare-metal servers, GPU-accelerated instances, managed databases, object and block storage, Kubernetes, and networking services. The platform emphasizes AI and HPC workloads with a broad selection of AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, fast networking, and 32+ data center regions, plus a marketplace of deployable apps and developer-friendly APIs. Vultr targets developers and businesses seeking affordable, scalable, and compliant cloud compute and storage alternatives to hyperscalers.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance PHP applications serving millions of API requests daily • Design and optimize MySQL database schemas, queries, and indexing for performance and reliability • Implement and maintain RESTful APIs following modern API design standards, including OpenAPI specifications and versioning best practices • Design and implement asynchronous workflows, background jobs, queues, and event-driven integrations where appropriate • Participate in architecture discussions, incident response, and root-cause analysis for production issues • Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices • Write clean, well-tested code with comprehensive unit and integration test coverage

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software development experience with strong proficiency in modern PHP (PHP 8+) and common frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, or Slim • Expertise in MySQL including query optimization and schema design for high-traffic applications • Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs using modern standards • Experience with Redis for caching, distributed locking, queues, and performance optimization • Familiarity with message queues and asynchronous processing systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, or Redis Streams • Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes • Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms (Vultr, AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tooling • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and Git-based development workflows • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans. • 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting • Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year • 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan • Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year • $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year • Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month • Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month • Company paid Wellable subscription