Director of Engineering - Hosting
Core
Lead the technical direction of Pantheon's Hosting Platform, managing infrastructure for 700,000+ websites and 17 billion monthly page views.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Infrastructure)
Builds
Edge delivery, container orchestration, database services, and site lifecycle management at scale for WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js sites.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Managed Hosting
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, multi-tenant hosting, on-call operations, customer escalation management, SLO definition, observability, architectural decision-making, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS/Azure, Nginx, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, PHP, Node.js, Go, Python, AI-native engineering practices
Preferred skills
leading engineering managers, technical transformation, executive communication, CDN and edge delivery architecture, LLM integration, agentic automation
Technologies
Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure, Nginx, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, PHP, Node.js, Go, Python
Responsibilities
Own the technical roadmap for hosting infrastructure, lead and mentor Engineering Managers and senior engineers, drive architectural decisions for large-scale distributed systems, define and enforce SLOs and incident response practices, manage critical customer escalations, balance technical debt against platform stability, represent technical interests with partners, champion AI-native engineering practices
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with management of managers