PHP Software Engineer

Vultr is seeking a PHP Software Engineer to build and maintain the backend systems powering Vultr's cloud platform.

The ideal candidate has solid experience with PHP and MySQL, familiarity with modern API design, and a passion for writing clean, reliable code.

This is a great opportunity to grow your career in a high-growth technology company, contributing to systems that serve customers across 185 countries.

This role requires a blend of backend development skills, database fundamentals, and collaborative engineering practices.

• 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

Qualifications

• 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