Principal Software Engineer - Hosting

About the Role: Pantheon is seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Hosting Platform. You'll architect, build, and evolve the core services underpinning Pantheon's hosting platform—including edge delivery, container orchestration, database services, and site lifecycle management for over 700,000 websites.

What You'll Do

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for platform reliability, scalability, and performance across billions of monthly requests.
• Architect large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership across the engineering organization—setting direction, reviewing designs, and mentoring engineers.
• Integrate AI-native tools (Copilot, Cursor) into engineering workflows to accelerate debugging, automate toil, and make better architectural decisions.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of software development experience, with 5+ years designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or equivalent systems-oriented languages.
• Deep expertise with container orchestration (Kubernetes), web server technologies, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience building or operating CDN, edge delivery, or networking-layer systems at scale.
• Experience building agentic and LLM-powered systems (task orchestration, prompt engineering, RAG).

Benefits

• Industry competitive compensation and equity plan.
• Flexible time off, sick days, and 13 paid holidays.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance along with paid parental leave.
• Monthly allowance for wellness, reading, and continued development.
• Fully remote work flexibility within the United States.