Principal Engineer

🕒 September 11

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Newfold Digital

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💰 Venture Round on 2021-01

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Newfold Digital is a leading web presence solutions provider serving millions of small-to-medium businesses globally. Through its portfolio of brands, including Bluehost, CrazyDomains, HostGator, Network Solutions, Register. com, Web. com, and many others, Newfold Digital helps customers of all sizes build a digital presence that delivers results and adds value to businesses. With extensive product offerings such as domains, website builders, hosting, security, online marketing, professional website design, and SEO services, along with personalized support, Newfold Digital collaborates with its customers to meet their online presence needs.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction and architecture standards for backend and infrastructure systems across the Hosting organization • Design and evolve large-scale Python backend services running on Linux and backed by MySQL at production scale • Guide modernization of Perl-based and cPanel-integrated systems without disrupting live customer sites or provisioning automations • Drive Site Reliability Engineering practices across Hosting • Partner with DevOps and SRE functions on incident response and system hardening • Own the organization-wide standard for AI-augmented delivery, including usage, code review, provenance, licensing, customer-data handling, and measurement • Lead root-cause analysis on complex, high-impact production issues and implement durable architectural fixes • Mentor senior- and staff-level engineers • Partner with engineering leadership on multi-quarter technical roadmaps supporting Bluehost's growth

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of backend/infrastructure engineering experience, including deep, hands-on hosting-platform expertise • Expert-level Python and Linux systems knowledge at real production scale • Strong MySQL expertise, including performance tuning, schema design, and large-scale troubleshooting • Deep hands-on experience in Perl and cPanel environments • Track record of modernizing legacy systems without breaking them • Preferred: strong background in Site Reliability Engineering and infrastructure practice • Experience applying architectural patterns for systemic resilience, fault isolation, and operational governance • Experience using AI across the delivery lifecycle and selecting appropriate models for different problems • Experience setting standards for AI-generated code review, provenance, licensing, customer-data handling, adoption, outcomes, security, and compliance • Proven technical leadership, including setting direction, mentoring engineers, and influencing decisions across multiple teams • Excellent judgment operating in complex, high-scale, customer-facing SaaS environments under real business pressure

🏖️ Benefits

• Work-life balance and a culture that respects your time • Culture of belonging • 20+ affinity groups connecting employees globally • Health insurance • HSA • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Matching 401(k) • Life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance • Tuition reimbursement • Pet insurance • Generous paid time off • Mentorship, new challenges, and career growth