Pantheon Systems, Inc
Director of Engineering - Hosting
Canada (Remote) · Director
No sponsorship$194k-$242kDetected 23 days ago
PythonGoPHPNext.jsNode.jsDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLMySQLRedisElasticsearchAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesNginxLLMsIncident ResponseWordPressCommunication
About the role
- You know what on-call looks like at this scale.
- You've handled critical customer escalations.
- You have strong opinions about what good looks like, and you're not afraid to push for it.
Responsibilities
- Pantheon brings together exceptional builders who take ownership, drive meaningful impact, and shape what's next for the web.
- Every day, thousands of developers and marketers use our WebOps platform to build, iterate, and scale WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js sites that reach billions of people worldwide.
- Own the technical roadmap for Pantheon's hosting infrastructure, driving reliability, scalability, and performance across hundreds of thousands of customer sites and billions of monthly requests
Requirements
- 12+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years managing other managers
- Proven track record leading high-performing engineering teams through meaningful technical transformation
- Deep experience with on-call operations and customer escalation management at scale
- Advanced knowledge of GCP, AWS, or Azure and container orchestration systems (Kubernetes)
- Experience with CDN and edge delivery architecture - caching strategies, cache invalidation, edge performance optimization
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or equivalent systems-oriented languages
Skills
- Executive-level communication skills; able to translate complex infrastructure concepts for product, sales, and executive audiences
- Expert-level understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and large-scale multi-tenant hosting environments
Compensation
- The Canadian base salary range for this position is 193,600 - 242,000 CAD per year.
Benefits
- We have all the usual perks and benefits but what we can really offer you is a fantastic work environment powered by an amazing team.
- Industry competitive compensation and equity plan
- Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Sick Leave (PSL) and 12 Paid Company Holidays
- Full medical coverage (Extended health care, dental, vision)
- Monthly allowance for wellness, reading and access to LinkedIn Learning for continued development
- Pantheon complies with federal and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
Company info
- foundation and freedom.
- Pantheon is a vibrant, remote-forward team of experts who care deeply about their craft and results.
- Here, you take ownership of work that matters, contribute alongside exceptional people, and see the impact you create.
- Pantheon is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the Hosting Platform - the team responsible for the infrastructure powering 700,000+ websites and 17 billion monthly page views.
- This is not a supporting role.
- You will own the technical direction of the systems at the core of
- Define and enforce SLOs, observability standards, and incident response practices that keep the platform stable and customers confident
- Manage critical customer escalations directly - understanding the technical depth of what customers are running and communicating clearly under pressure
Equal opportunity
- If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the interview process, please contact talent@pantheon.io.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa Sponsorship is not available at this time.
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