Job Title: Staff Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore, India

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 a Staff Platform Infrastructure Engineer in this fully remote role based in India, you will be pivotal in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including software engineering, product management, and leadership across different regions, you will ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our applications and services. This role requires deep technical expertise in coding, system architecture, and infrastructure design, along with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to mentor and build a cohesive engineering team. You will be responsible for maintaining production systems, building tooling, and supporting core infrastructure, while also contributing to compliance, monitoring, and observability efforts to support the global operations of an impressive and growing platform that powers hundreds of thousands of websites, millions of containerized resources, and billions of monthly page views. 

If all of this sounds interesting to you, read on!

• Working on advanced globally scaled implementations of Content Management systems, mostly consisting of WordPress and Drupal CM, but also custom customer needs using the latest in Google Cloud platform offerings.
• Working on a large scale orchestration platform serving millions of containers, using lower level Linux systems like systemd/cgroups directly.
• Administering, developing and maintaining standardization and configuration state management with industry best practices in Kubernetes, Terraform, Various GCP tools and Services, Vault etc.

• Using Observability tools such as Grafana to monitor platform performance and server fleet health, ensuring real-time observability and actionable insights across our infrastructure.
• Close collaboration with the wider engineering team to both deliver platform improvements and provide subject-matter-expertise for other technical initiatives
• Owning 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

What you need to Succeed

• Strong understanding and work experience developing in GoLang or Python along with an understanding of automated testing.
• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems administration.
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, and release management.
• Work-related experience with large-scale, high-traffic platforms.
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives.
• Experience with infrastructure-level monitoring, alerting, escalation, and production support.
• Developing and maturing sustainable systems and services through automation.

Bonus Points

• Working knowledge of serverless and event driven development
• Working knowledge of Grafana Cloud, and Prometheus
• Working knowledge of Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis
• Working knowledge of React, Node.js, Python, Go
• Working knowledge of Docker, Github Actions or CircleCI, Vault

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 performance bonus plan
• Paid time off, sick leave, and 10 paid holidays
• Comprehensive medical health insurance & personal accident coverage
• In-office workspace (Bangalore, India)
• Monthly allowance for fitness, 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 action 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 talent@pantheon.io.

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