Engineering Manager, Pantheon
$174.2-217.8k
+ Equity
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Website operations platform
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Website operations platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$174.2-217.8k
+ Equity
More information about location
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
- We are looking for a hands-on people manager that has experience building full stack security-focused services for our customer base. You thrive as a player-coach, knowing when to make technical decisions and when to delegate. You are an AI advocate and also have the foundational knowledge to dive in deep
- 8+ years of experience in software development, including a solid foundation as an individual contributor
- 3+ years of direct people management experience: leading a team, mentoring engineers, or tech-lead responsibilities with people ownership
- Track record of successfully launching and operating full stack, production-scale projects with stringent SLOs
- Deep knowledge of identity access management and other developer-focused security products
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or a similar language, enough to review code, tech designs, and engage credibly in technical discussion
- Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure: GCP (or equivalent cloud), serverless applications like Cloud Run, AWS Lambda or Azure Functions, and Terraform
- AI-native instincts: fluency with AI coding assistants and a track record of how they change how your teams work
- The team's domain is broad, and we don't expect candidates to check every box. The ideal candidate brings depth in a few of these areas:
- Authorization at scale: Familiarity with ReBAC and ABAC. (Zanzibar-style systems such as Auth0 FGA, OpenFGA, or SpiceDB)
- Multi-tenant account modeling: business accounts, organizations, workspaces, teams, and the role and permission hierarchies that connect them
- GraphQL API design, federation, and gateway architectures
- Search and indexing services (Elasticsearch or similar) and event-driven data pipelines (Pub/Sub or similar)
- Notification service for in-product, webhooks, SMS, email, and other third-party services
- Decommissioning legacy systems and running incremental migrations without customer disruption
- Vendor evaluation and build-vs-buy analysis for platform capabilities such as notifications or AI-powered support
- Developer-facing surfaces: CLIs and public APIs used by technical customers
What the job involves
- Pantheon is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to grow our account management and identity services to the next level. In our evolving developer ecosystem, we need to support traditional user access patterns as well as AI agents as primary use cases. This rethinking of how our customers work is at the heart of the team’s mission
- Drive frontend and backend excellence across the team’s services, maintaining the highest level of reliability for both customers and our own engineers
- Architect our backend systems using modern design patterns and technologies
- Work with partners across Product, Security, UX, and Design to drive a technical roadmap centered around the evolving needs of our customers
- Bring the best of the industry to the team, whether that’s new developments in agentic tooling, open source technologies, or exciting vendors to evaluate
- Apply a security mindset to everything that we build, keeping our customers' safety front of mind
- Use data and retrospectives to consistently evolve the productivity and well-being of your team
- Set a high performance bar for your team, measured by roadmap success, technical excellence, and high levels of individual growth
- Hire, coach, and grow engineers with hands-on guidance, building a culture of ownership, accountability, and knowledge sharing
- Mentor senior engineers to the next level by purposefully delegating leadership responsibilities and making space for stretch development goals
- Navigate hard conversations with empathy and authenticity, treat failures as learning moments, and create space for your team to drive success
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 organisations.
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 personalisation 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 & SVP of Marketing)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 & Advisor)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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