Principal Software Engineer, P1 – Engineering Strategy

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $198.9k - $248.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Pantheon Platform

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Marketing • SaaS

Pantheon Platform is the WebOps platform for managing websites built on Drupal and WordPress. The company focuses on empowering developers, IT professionals, and marketers to develop, test, and release website changes quickly and reliably, thereby enhancing the management of single or multiple websites. With its cloud-native software, Pantheon aims to help organizations create value through efficient website operations.

📋 Description

• Own and evolve P1’s architectural vision across real-time collaboration, content state, APIs, data models, visual editing, publishing, integrations, and developer-facing extension points • Establish architectural boundaries between P1, Pantheon hosting/platform capabilities, and external systems • Make build-versus-buy and platform-boundary decisions based on customer value, reliability, security, operational complexity, developer experience, and total cost of ownership • Identify risks, make tradeoffs explicit, document and communicate decisions, and revisit them as evidence changes • Define company-wide engineering strategy with engineering, product, design, security, infrastructure, support, and go-to-market leaders • Establish engineering principles for reliability, security, privacy, observability, API design, testing, deployment, incident response, and operational ownership • Create mechanisms for cross-team technical alignment, including architecture reviews, decision records, reference patterns, roadmaps, and dependency planning • Establish best practices for designing, building, testing, deploying, and operating production software • Promote reliability-by-design, secure defaults, least-privilege access, dependency management, threat modeling, and responsible AI use • Mentor Staff and Senior engineers through architecture reviews, design sessions, pairing, code reviews, and feedback • Build reusable patterns, libraries, templates, documentation, and paved paths • Contribute hands-on code to validate architecture, unblock critical paths, or establish reference implementations • Strengthen the technical hiring bar and design senior/principal interview signals • Partner with product and design on phased delivery plans and challenge risky scope, sequencing, or assumptions • Participate in selected customer, partner, and internal technical discussions • Ensure developer, content-team, and operational experience are first-class product concerns

🎯 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 across frontend, backend, APIs, data, infrastructure, security, and operations • Experience with distributed, event-driven, real-time, collaborative, or stateful systems • Demonstrated judgment in build-versus-buy decisions, platform boundaries, technical investment, and managing technical debt • Deep experience with production reliability, observability, incident response, safe delivery, and operational ownership • Strong API and integration design experience, including versioning, compatibility, authentication, authorization, webhooks, or extension models • Ability to write clear design documents and explain complex tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders • History of mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction without formal authority • 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 • Helpful experience: real-time collaboration, multiplayer systems, CRDTs, operational transformation, synchronization, conflict resolution, visual editors, page builders, CMS products, web publishing, developer tooling, SDKs, plugin ecosystems, GCP, AWS, Cloudflare, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, multi-tenant SaaS, zero-to-one launches, or platform transformations • Visa sponsorship is not available at this time

🏖️ Benefits

• 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