Senior Principal Engineer - Hosting Platform & SRE Leader

Web.com Canada, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

HSA

Dental

Vision

401K matching

Life/AD&D/STD/LTD

Tuition reimbursement

Pet insurance

Generous PTO

Job summary

Bluehost is seeking a Principal Engineer to provide deep technical leadership for the Hosting platform at a pivotal moment for the business. This senior individual contributor role will drive architecture, reliability, and modernization across backend and infrastructure systems.

You will design large-scale Python services on Linux with MySQL, modernize Perl/cPanel environments, and lead SRE practices while mentoring senior engineers and aligning multi-quarter roadmaps with Bluehost's growth

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend/infrastructure engineering experience.
• Expert Python and Linux systems knowledge at production scale.
• Strong MySQL expertise including performance tuning and schema design.
• Hands-on Perl and cPanel experience with modernization of legacy systems.
• Background in Site Reliability Engineering and infrastructure governance.
• Ability to set direction and mentor engineers across teams.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and architecture standards for backend and infrastructure systems.
• Design and evolve large-scale Python backend services running on Linux, backed by MySQL at production scale.
• Modernize Perl-based and cPanel environments without disrupting live sites or live provisioning automations.
• Drive site reliability engineering practice across Hosting, partnering with DevOps and SRE functions on incident response and system hardening.
• Own the org-wide standard for AI-augmented delivery: governance on prompts, provenance, and licensing.
• Lead root‑cause analysis on complex production issues and turn findings into durable architectural fixes.
• Mentor senior and staff-level engineers and shape multi-quarter tech roadmaps.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Linux

MySQL

Perl

Site Reliability Engineering

Technical leadership

Roadmapping

Tools

cPanel

Job description

Bluehost is seeking a Principal Engineer to provide deep technical leadership for the Hosting platform at a pivotal moment for the business. This senior individual contributor role will drive architecture, reliability, and modernization across backend and infrastructure systems.

You will design large-scale Python services on Linux with MySQL, modernize Perl/cPanel environments, and lead SRE practices while mentoring senior engineers and aligning multi-quarter roadmaps with Bluehost's growth