Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Engineering

About Pantheon

Pantheon WebOps Platform powers the open web running more than 300000 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. Pantheons 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 Pantheons collaborative workflows.

The Role

Pantheon is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Delivery Engineering (DelEng) team. As a senior member of the team you will design build and evolve the systems standards and paved paths that power Pantheons end-to-end delivery workflow across the company.

Our work is organized around four focus areas that guide everything we build:

1. Automated consistent and governed delivery
   Standardized CI/CD pipelines reusable components and paved paths that remove friction and support consistent releases.
2. Deployment safety and quality assurance
   Built-in validation progressive delivery patterns automated verification and fast rollback paths that increase confidence in every release.
3. Scalable release observability and analytics
   Metrics tagging logs and dashboards that make every release visible traceable and measurable.
4. Governance and compliance at scale
   Versioned templates required approvals artifact provenance and compliance checks that make safe releases the default.

As a senior engineer you will:

• Design scalable delivery and deployment patterns using modern GCP offerings
• Define and improve standardized delivery workflows adopted across product and platform teams
• Solve challenges in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) secrets management artifact registries service identity and secure delivery
• Lead POCs for advanced delivery techniques like blue-green canary and progressive rollouts
• Improve ephemeral environment workflows for testing and pre-production
• Identify friction in build and deploy workflows and design solutions that scale across engineering
• Partner with teams to elevate delivery practices and ensure consistent adoption of paved paths
• Participate in the on-call rotation to help ensure the reliability of the delivery platform

Our work improves the developer experience increases release frequency reduces failure rates and aligns Pantheon around clear standards that support safe and confident delivery at scale.

What you Need to Succeed

• Clear confident communication and the ability to influence engineering teams toward consistent delivery practices
• Collaborative approach to working with product teams platform teams SRE and architects
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to take work from concept to adoption
• Empathy for developers and understanding of how delivery workflows impact their day-to-day experience
• Ability to navigate ambiguity break down complex problems and make pragmatic technical tradeoffs
• Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed engineering organization and build strong relationships across time zones
• Comfort working in large distributed systems and helping others understand them

What you Bring to the Table

• Experience applying AI/ML techniques to improve delivery workflows such as intelligent test selection failure pattern detection or release verification.
• Experience leading or significantly contributing to delivery platform or infrastructure initiatives across multiple teams
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to guide the adoption of delivery standards paved paths and quality guardrails
• Interest in software supply chain security concepts and a willingness to learn as needed
• Ability to build scalable maintainable components. Experience with Go is helpful and strong proficiency in Python or similar languages is equally valuable.
• Experience with GitHub Actions ecosystem including reusable workflows and self-hosted runners
• Familiarity with Terraform-based infrastructure patterns
• Deep experience with containers Kubernetes and serverless platforms like Cloud Run
• Ability to design reliable CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows with strong validation and test coverage

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 equity plan
• Paid Time Off (PTO) Paid Sick Leave (PSL) and 11 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

Pantheon is an equal opportunity 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 Pursuant to local and federal regulations Pantheon will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.

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The Canadian base salary range for this position is 103206 - 129008 CAD per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location. At Pantheon it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.