About the job
About Pantheon
Pantheon supports over 300,000 websites for organizations including Google, Princeton, Salesloft, Clorox, and the United Nations. Our WebOps platform helps developers and marketers build, manage, and scale WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js sites that reach billions worldwide. The company values expertise, results, and a collaborative, remote-friendly culture where individual contributions have real impact.
Role Overview
Pantheon is building a real-time, collaborative web content platform from the ground up. This product aims to change how teams create, publish, and manage content online. As a Staff Software Engineer - Web Platform (Remote, United States), you will play a central role in shaping this new product category, which blends developer tools, visual editing, and cloud-native content infrastructure.
This is not a maintenance role. The work focuses on foundational engineering and new product development, with decisions that will influence thousands of developers and content teams for years to come.
What You Will Do
- Lead technical direction and contribute hands-on across the stack, from backend APIs and real-time synchronization services to frontend component systems and editing interfaces.
- Work closely with product and design to define architecture, set engineering standards, and make build-versus-buy decisions.
- Guide and mentor a focused engineering team, helping achieve key milestones.
- Balance deep technical discussions (such as distributed state management) with building user-friendly, engaging interfaces.
What Pantheon Looks For
- Experience as a technical leader and hands-on contributor in web platform engineering.
- Comfort working across the full stack, including backend services and frontend interfaces.
- Ability to collaborate with product and design teams on architecture and product direction.
- Depth in distributed systems and frontend development.
Why Join Pantheon?
- Opportunity to help define a new product category in web content management.
- Work on technically challenging and commercially relevant problems.
- Collaborate with talented colleagues in a remote-friendly environment where results matter.

