Engineering Manager, Content Publisher

Pantheon; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading web technology company in the United Kingdom is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Content Publisher team. In this role, you will drive the evolution of products while ensuring engineering excellence. Responsibilities include technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and contributing to architecture. The ideal candidate has experience with cloud-native infrastructure and a passion for AI technologies. This position offers competitive compensation, robust vacation, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Industry competitive compensation

Robust Vacation Package with 28 days of Holiday

Private medical and dental coverage

Life and Critical illness insurance

Attractive Workplace Pension scheme

Access to Employee Resource Platform

Monthly wellness allowance

Events and activities for team-building

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering initiatives across large, distributed systems.
• Ability to inspire and manage technical teams effectively.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and design of core platform components.
• Coach engineers through code reviews and design discussions.
• Champion operational quality and drive performance optimizations.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Full-stack development (TypeScript, Go)

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud-native infrastructure

AI technologies

Software architecture principles

Exceptional communication skills

Job description

About Pantheon

Pantheon WebOps Platform powers the open web, running more than 300,000 sites in the cloud for customers including Google, Princeton, Salesloft and Doctors Without Borders. Every day, thousands of developers and marketers create, iterate, and scale WordPress and Drupal sites to reach billions of people globally. Pantheon’s multitenant, container-based platform enables organizations to manage all of their websites from a single dashboard. Organizations including Clorox and the United Nations drive results through accelerated development and real-time publishing using Pantheon’s collaborative workflows.

The Role

As the Engineering Manager on the Content Publisher team, you’ll play a critical role in architecting and driving the evolution of one of Pantheon’s newest products. We are delivering high impact by transforming how content creators, managers and developers deliver higher speed to publish with less effort while also delivering new content governance capabilities. You’ll be responsible for guiding engineering excellence, leading cross-functional technical initiatives, and mentoring engineers to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-performing systems that empower Pantheon’s customers across their Web teams.

This is a hands‑on leadership role: you’ll own the technical vision for key areas, influence architectural decisions, and set the bar for engineering quality and operational excellence across teams. While you are not expected to be a primary developer, we are looking for candidates who are able to jump into their team’s toughest and most strategic technical challenges, contributing insights, direction, and even code where needed.

What You’ll Do

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Own the end‑to‑end architecture and design of core platform components. Make key decisions that ensure scalability, resilience, and maintainability across systems.
• Mentorship & Team Enablement: Coach engineers across teams through code reviews, design discussions, and hands‑on pair programming. Drive technical growth and foster a culture of engineering excellence.
• Reliability & Performance Engineering: Champion operational quality — drive root cause analysis, implement performance optimizations, and reduce system toil through automation and observability.
• Code Ownership & Delivery: Contribute production‑quality code and review critical paths for quality, security, and performance. Guide teams through complex delivery cycles and long‑term roadmap execution.
• Innovation, AI & Technical Strategy: Identify and explore emerging technologies and trends, especially around AI, to accelerate the integration of innovative capabilities in Content Publisher.
• Standards & Best Practices: Establish and enforce engineering best practices in testing, deployment, monitoring, and system design. Help codify reusable patterns and shared libraries.

What You’ll Bring to the Table

• Enthusiasm for the future of the Web, content management, and AI technologies.
• History of inspiring teams as both a people manager and technical lead.
• Proven experience leading engineering initiatives across large, distributed systems and teams.
• Strong full‑stack experience with both frontend and backend languages (especially TypeScript and Go), CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
• Strong knowledge, interest and hands‑on experience with AI infrastructure and technological trends in the context of website technology and content management systems
• Deep knowledge of cloud‑native infrastructure (GCP or AWS, containers, microservices, service discovery, etc.).
• Strong grasp of software architecture principles and the tradeoffs between reliability, scalability, and simplicity.
• A track record of solving complex engineering problems and improving systems over time.
• Ability to work across organizational boundaries and influence technical decisions at all levels.
• Exceptional communication and documentation skills — you’re as comfortable in an RFC as you are in a postmortem.
• Passion for mentoring, knowledge sharing, and building a collaborative engineering culture.

What We Offer

We have all the usual perks and benefits but what we can really offer you is a fantastic work environment powered by an amazing team.

• Industry competitive compensation and equity plan
• Robust Vacation Package with 28 days of Holiday
• Private medical and dental coverage
• Life and Critical illness insurance
• Attractive Workplace Pension scheme
• Access to Employee Resource Platform
• 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

Pantheon is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by law. Pantheon complies with federal and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the interview process, please contact [e-mail].

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