Key skills
Distributed SystemsJavaScriptKubernetesNGINXNode.jsPHPPythonGoLeadershipCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and performance across hundreds of thousands of sites and billions of monthly requests.
- Architect, build, and evolve the core services underpinning Pantheon’s hosting platform — including edge delivery, container orchestration, database services, and site lifecycle management.
- Partner with product, security, and infrastructure teams to identify root causes and design iterative, high-impact solutions.
- Balance immediate business needs against long-term architectural health, making principled trade-offs that keep the platform sustainable as it scales.
- Provide technical leadership across the engineering organization — setting direction, reviewing designs, and raising the bar for quality, reliability, and operability.
- Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, providing technical guidance and growing engineering talent across the broader organization.
- Contribute to an engineering-wide culture of collaboration, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software development experience, with significant tenure building platform or infrastructure products
- 5+ years of experience designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems
- Proficiency with container orchestration (Kubernetes), web server technologies (NGINX, PHP, Node.js, or similar), and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Demonstrated ability to own and improve a production platform serving millions of concurrent users or requests
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or equivalent systems-oriented languages.
Tech Stack
- Distributed Systems
- JavaScript
- Kubernetes
- NGINX
- Node.js
- PHP
- Python
- Go
Benefits
- Industry competitive compensation and equity plan
- Flexible time off, sick days, and 13 paid holidays
- Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision
- Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
- In-office workspace (San Francisco & Chicago)
- Monthly allowance for wellness, reading and access to LinkedIn Learning for continued development
- Events and activities both team-based and company wide that inspire, educate and cultivate