Pantheon is seeking a Principal Engineer to join our Hosting Platform team. As a Principal Engineer, you will work at the core of what makes Pantheon run: the systems that provision, serve, and scale sites across our Global CDN, Google Cloud infrastructure, and developer toolchain.
Requirements
- 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.
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
