Software Engineer, Pantheon
Customer Platform / Runtimes
+ Equity plan
Website operations platform
Open for applications
Website operations platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the web a first-class platform that delivers results, one that empowers marketing and development teams to take control of their websites.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years working on high-traffic or complex distributed systems
- Work experience developing with either Golang (preferred) or Python
- Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
- Work experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of LEMP stack administration (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP)
- Clear communication skills and the ability to represent your contributions and ideas with clarity while remaining open and giving space to the contributions and ideas of others
Desirable
- Working knowledge of Cassandra, Redis, Solr, or ElasticSearch
- Working knowledge of Chef, CircleCI, or Vault
- Working knowledge of Wordpress or Drupal
- On-Call Experience supporting customer-facing services in Production
- Coding experience as part of a large team or large product (beyond simple scripts)
- Work-related experience with large-scale, high-traffic platforms
- Work-related experience with designing scalable and robust services in the real world
- Experience participating in system design, platform management, and capacity planning
- Experience creating sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
What the job involves
- Pantheon is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Customer Platform & Runtimes team
- We’re expanding an impressive and growing platform that powers hundreds of thousands of websites, millions of containerized resources, billions of monthly page views, and development tools that professional website developers use
- Along the way, we’ve built tools to manage containers at scale and a massive multi-tenant distributed file system, contributed to open source communities (WordPress, Drupal, Fedora, Chef, systemd, cURL, Kubernetes, Terraform, to name a few), a CI/CD pipeline, and a cloud-native container-based infrastructure orchestrated with Kubernetes
- If you have experience with any of these technologies, that's great and if not, that's okay too. Our engineering team is filled with experienced engineers who are happy to help open-minded candidates learn on the job, regardless of their background
- Delivering a cutting-edge web platform for some of the world’s top enterprise and educational customers
- Working on advanced globally scaled implementations of WordPress and Drupal CMS systems using the latest in Google Cloud platform offerings
- Working on a large scale orchestration platform serving millions of containers, using lower level Linux systems like systemd/cgroups directly
- Administering and maintaining standardization and configuration state management with Docker/Kubernetes, Chef, Terraform, and Vault
- Close collaboration with the wider engineering team to both deliver platform improvements and provide subject-matter-expertise for other technical initiatives
- Owning your team’s production systems, measure and track their health with SLO’s, and assist our dedicated support team to resolve production issues
- Continuous improvements to our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding, testing, deploying and communication
- Supporting Pantheon as a member of the on-call engineer rotation, contributing to the infrastructure’s stability, reliability, and performance that drives Pantheon's success
- Supporting and meeting with Pantheon customers, as needed, to ensure their success as well as ours
Our take
In today's digital landscape, website hosting is a critical component for businesses, and the demand for fast, reliable, and scalable hosting platforms is higher than ever. The competition is fierce, with major players like GoDaddy, Ionos, AWS, and WP Engine dominating the space.
One standout in this crowded market is Pantheon, a leading WebOps platform designed to deliver high-performance hosting for content-driven websites. Pantheon's unique value lies in its ability to provide seamless collaboration between developers and marketers while ensuring fast, reliable website performance. It's a platform that goes beyond traditional hosting by offering powerful tools for managing websites and scaling them as needed - making it a go-to choice for many organizations.
Pantheon has continuously innovated to stay ahead of the competition, with significant investments driving its growth. Initially focused on hosting solutions for WordPress and Drupal websites, it now offers content management as a service. This expansion was bolstered by significant funding, fueling further product development and the introduction of new features like personalization and analytics. These efforts have reinforced Pantheon's position as a leader in the WebOps and hosting space.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES E
Mar 2019
$40m
SERIES D
Total funding: $196.8m
Company benefits
- Health & Wellness: Taking care of you and your family is important to us. Our healthcare benefits program delivers choice and value so you can prioritize your health
- Remote & In-Office: We believe in a flexible employee experience, our San Francisco office is a center for collaboration and connection, but it's not the only place this happens
- Flexible Time-Off: We encourage work/life balance. Take time off when you need it, and return ready to make magic on the internet when you're ready and refreshed
- Monthly Book & Gym Allowance: One of the many ways we enable our team to take control of their development and wellness is to take advantage of our books and gym membership allowance
- Promoting Inclusivity: We strive to have a culture where Pantheors across the globe feel a high sense of belonging and engagement. We have several programs in place to help cultivate inclusion at Pantheon, including educational events, open forums, and training opportunities
- Giving Back: We believe in cultivating passion and giving back to the community we live and work in. Pantheon offers a Donation Matching program of $500 per employee and holds multiple team volunteer opportunities throughout the year
- Employee Resource Groups: Our Pantheon Resource Groups (PRGs) allow employees to connect, support each other, and spread awareness
- Professional Development: We support employee learning and development through company led-training, leadership forums, and full access to LinkedIn Learning's catalogue of courses
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sameer Kazi
(CEO)Joined Pantheon in 2024 as CEO. They have also served as the Managing Director of Operating Capital since 2015. Previously they were the President of ActiveCampaign and CEO of Cheetah Digital.
Josh Koenig
(Co-Founder & CSO)They were part of the team that drove the first high-profile public Drupal use-case with the Howard and Dean campaign in 2003. They then went on to found the Drupal Dojo, an online learning community for developers, and to co-found the premiere Drupal agency in San Francisco, Chapter Three.
David Strauss
(Co-Founder & CTO)After co-founding Four Kitchens, a successful Web Development shop, they found themselves gravitating away from the customer client work and towards infrastructure solutions. Large clients like NBCUniversal, The Economics, and Wikimedia had already benefited from their scalability and database optimization work.
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