Pantheon Systems, Inc

Pantheon Systems, Inc

Principal Software Engineer, Collaborative Web Platform

United States (Remote) · Principal

No sponsorship$199k-$249kDetected 40 days ago
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About the role

  • We are looking for a Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership and help define engineering strategy and best practices across Pantheon.
  • Our Collaborative Web Platform is a zero-to-one product at the intersection of real-time collaboration, visual editing, web application infrastructure, developer experience, AI-assisted workflows, content management, and governed publishing.
  • The product must make it possible for multiple roles-and increasingly, AI agents-to work in parallel without compromising reliability, security, accessibility, brand standards, or the live site.

Responsibilities

  • Make pragmatic build-versus-buy and platform-boundary decisions using explicit criteria for customer value, reliability, security, operational complexity, developer experience, and total cost of ownership.
  • Create an architecture that supports fast MVP delivery without locking the company into avoidable long-term constraints.
  • Drive company-wide engineering strategy
  • Partner with engineering, product, design, security, infrastructure, support, and go-to-market leaders to define technical strategy for capabilities that span multiple organizations.
  • Help establish common engineering principles for reliability, security, privacy, observability, API design, testing, deployment, incident response, and operational ownership.
  • Create lightweight mechanisms for cross-team technical alignment, such as architecture reviews, decision records, reference patterns, technical roadmaps, and dependency planning.
  • Establish practical best practices for designing, building, testing, deploying, and operating production software.
  • Promote reliability-by-design: service ownership, clear SLOs, actionable telemetry, safe migrations, failure-mode analysis, graceful degradation, retry safety, idempotency, and tested rollback paths.
  • Improve the consistency and quality of design documents, technical proposals, API contracts, code reviews, test strategies, and release plans.
  • Build technical leverage across teams

Requirements

  • 14+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent depth demonstrated through sustained technical impact.
  • A track record of acting as a Principal Engineer, Chief Architect or equivalent technical leader across multiple teams and products.
  • Experience defining technical strategy for a complex product, platform, or distributed system from early architecture through production operation.
  • Strong systems thinking and the ability to reason across frontend, backend, APIs, data, infrastructure, security, and operations.
  • Experience with distributed, event-driven, real-time, collaborative, or stateful systems.
  • Deep experience with production reliability, observability, incident response, safe delivery, and operational ownership.
  • Comfort working in ambiguity, moving between strategy and implementation, and changing direction when evidence warrants it.
  • Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools thoughtfully, with attention to quality, security, auditability, and failure handling.
  • After an offer is made and accepted, E-verify will be utilized to establish your identity and employment eligibility as required by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
  • Demonstrated judgment in build-versus-buy decisions, platform boundaries, technical investment, and managing technical debt.
  • Strong API and integration design experience, including versioning, compatibility, authentication, authorization, webhooks, or extension models.
  • The ability to write clear design documents and explain complex tradeoffs to engineers, executives, product partners, customers, and non-technical stakeholders.
  • A history of mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction without relying on formal authority.
  • Helpful Experience
  • Real-time collaboration, multiplayer systems, CRDTs, operational transformation, synchronization, or conflict resolution.

Compensation

  • The US base salary range for this position in the United States is $198,900-$248,625.

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
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • Own and evolve the architectural vision across real-time collaboration, branch-aware content state, APIs, data models, visual editing, publishing, integrations, and developer-facing extension points.

Company info

  • The Role We are looking for a Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership and help define engineering strategy and best practices across Pantheon.
  • If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the interview process, please contact talent@pantheon.io.
  • Partner with product and customers

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Visa Sponsorship is not available at this time.
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