Principal Engineer, Real-Time Collaborative Web Platform

Webhosting; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 199,000 - 249,000; Full time

Job summary

Pantheon is seeking a Principal Engineer for its Collaborative Web Platform in the United States. You will provide technical leadership, shape architecture, and ensure reliability across real-time collaboration, visual editing, and hosting capabilities.

The role is hands-on and cross-functional, guiding teams while authoring critical cod​​e and design decisions. You will define the architectural direction, balance platform boundaries, and drive company-wide engineering strategy with

Qualifications

• Experience shaping architecture across real-time collaboration, APIs, data models, and editing platforms.
• Ability to balance build-versus-buy decisions, architecture tradeoffs and security considerations.
• Mentor senior engineers and build reusable patterns and reference implementations.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction across real-time collaboration and platform boundaries.
• Drive engineering strategy across multiple orgs with measurable outcomes.
• Raise reliability and security standards through best practices and design reviews.
• Partner with product, design, security, and infrastructure to plan phased delivery.

Job description

Pantheon is seeking a Principal Engineer for its Collaborative Web Platform in the United States. You will provide technical leadership, shape architecture, and ensure reliability across real-time collaboration, visual editing, and hosting capabilities.

The role is hands-on and cross-functional, guiding teams while authoring critical cod​​e and design decisions. You will define the architectural direction, balance platform boundaries, and drive company-wide engineering strategy with