Principal Software Engineer – Hosting

Pantheon Platform

Principal Software Engineer at Pantheon developing infrastructure for a hosting platform powering 700,000+ websites. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable solutions.

Posted 4/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $187,200 - $234,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoJavaScriptKubernetesNGINXNode.jsPHPPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentplatform architecturedistributed systemscontainer orchestrationinfrastructure-as-codeGoPythonNGINXPHPNode.js

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcoachingcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationdesign reviewquality assurancecontinuous improvementtrade-off analysis