Engineering Manager – United States

WebHosting; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pantheon is hiring an Engineering Manager to evolve our account management and identity services. You will lead a hands-on team focused on secure, scalable full-stack solutions and guide technical decisions while mentoring engineers.

You will work with Product, Security, UX, and Design to align roadmaps with customer needs and industry best practices. You will champion security-minded development, foster a culture of ownership, and push for continuous improvement through data-driven

Qualifications

• Hands-on people manager with experience growing engineering teams.
• Experience building full stack security-focused services for customers.
• Advocate for AI and able to dive into implementation when needed.

Responsibilities

• Drive frontend and backend excellence across services with high reliability for customers and engineers.
• Architect backend systems using modern design patterns and technologies.
• Collaborate with Product, Security, UX, and Design to shape a technical roadmap.
• Mentor senior engineers and delegate leadership to enable growth.
• Hire, coach, and grow engineers while fostering ownership and accountability.

Skills

People management

Full-stack development

Security-focused services

Backend architecture

Frontend development

Job description

Job Description

About Pantheon

Pantheon brings together exceptional builders who take ownership, drive meaningful impact, and shape what’s next for the web. We power more than 300,000 websites globally for organizations including Google, Princeton, Salesloft, Clorox, and the United Nations. Every day, thousands of developers and marketers use our WebOps platform to build, iterate, and scale WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js sites that reach billions of people worldwide. As an employer, we operate with the same philosophy that drives our product: foundation and freedom. Pantheon is a vibrant, remote-forward team of experts who care deeply about their craft and results. Here, you take ownership of work that matters, contribute alongside exceptional people, and see the impact you create.

The Role

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.

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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.