Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Pantheon as a Platform Engineer and contribute to a high-impact platform supporting hundreds of thousands of websites. You will administer and maintain configuration management, work on a large-scale orchestration platform, and collaborate with the engineering team. Responsibilities include owning production systems, tracking health with SLOs, and resolving production issues. Continuous improvement of engineering excellence is crucial, along with on-call support. The ideal candidate possesses strong experience with GoLang/Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Linux administration, and experience with large-scale, high-traffic platforms.

Requirements

• 7+ Years of working on advanced globally scaled implementations using the latest in Cloud platform offerings
• Strong understanding and work experience developing with either GoLang/Python
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems administration
• Work-related experience with large-scale, high-traffic platforms
• Experience with observability stacks, like Grafana and native cloud monitoring and alerting tools
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Work-related experience with designing scalable and robust services in the real world
• 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
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain standardization and configuration state management with Docker/Kubernetes,Terraform, and Vault
• Work on a large scale orchestration platform serving millions of containers, using lower level Linux systems like systemd/cgroups directly
• Close collaboration with the wider engineering team to both deliver platform improvements and provide subject-matter-expertise for other technical initiatives
• Own 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
• Support Pantheon as a member of the on-call engineer rotation, contributing to the infrastructure’s stability, reliability, and performance that drives Pantheon's success

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Cassandra, MySQL, Redis
• Working knowledge of Bash, Ruby
• Working knowledge of Docker, CircleCI, GitHub Action
• Working knowledge of Grafana and GCP monitoring

Benefits

• Industry competitive compensation and equity plan
• Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Sick Leave (PSL) and 11 Paid Company Holidays
• Full medical coverage (Extended health care, dental, vision)
• Top-of-line equipment
• 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