Senior Engineering Manager, Customer Runtimes

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About the role

  • Senior Engineering Manager leading teams that scale infrastructure for Pantheon’s WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js WebOps platform. Driving cloud modernization, architecture, and engineering delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage a sizable team of software engineers building scaled infrastructure services for customer Drupal, WordPress, and Next.js sites
  • Guide the team through organizational changes, challenges, and uncertainties while maintaining productivity and morale
  • Coach, mentor, and develop engineering talent
  • Manage multiple critical projects with shifting priorities and ensure high-quality delivery while considering on-call and operational burden
  • Align team priorities with organizational objectives and advocate for beneficial changes
  • Lead architecture discussions, review critical code, provide constructive feedback, and contribute to technical discussions
  • Craft team and organizational goals with immediate team members and cross-functional stakeholders
  • Communicate complex technical concepts clearly, verbally and in writing
  • Translate high-level goals into actionable tasks, provide feedback, and allocate work autonomously within the team’s scope
  • Own the health and progress of Pantheon’s largest infrastructure footprint

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in software development, with a solid foundation as a Staff or Principal engineer demonstrating deep technical expertise
  • 3+ years of direct people management experience, including large global teams, mentoring Staff engineers, and balancing multiple subteams
  • Track record of driving performance management and cultivating a high-performance engineering culture, setting clear expectations, delivering candid feedback, and developing engineers at all levels through structured growth and calibration processes
  • Proven ability to deliver multiple simultaneous projects successfully, working directly with customers and external communities
  • Experience leading cloud and infrastructure modernization initiatives spanning large critical fleets
  • Fluency with AI coding assistants and a point of view on how they change how teams work
  • Strong practice of Agile, Scrum, or other structured development methodologies
  • Direct experience designing platforms running cloud-based applications at broad scale
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalable cloud architectures, and cloud technologies, including Kubernetes/K8S, GCP GKE, AWS ECS/EKS, Google Cloud Run, AWS Lambda, MySQL, MariaDB, Cloud SQL, Redis, and Memcached
  • Production experience running and automating large Linux-based fleets using Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and dynamic provisioning systems
  • Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms
  • Working knowledge of Python, Golang, or other modern programming languages
  • Visa sponsorship is not available at this time

Benefits

  • Industry competitive compensation and equity plan
  • Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Sick Leave (PSL) and 12 Paid Company Holidays
  • Full medical coverage (Extended health care, dental, vision)
  • Top-of-line equipment
  • In-office workspace (Vancouver, BC Canada)
  • Monthly allowance for wellness, reading and access to LinkedIn Learning for continued development
  • Events and activities both team-based and company wide that inspire, educate and cultivate

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$170,400 - CA$213,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDrupalGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKubernetesLinuxMariaDBMySQLNext.jsPythonRedisSQLTerraformWordPressGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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