Staff Software Engineer - Collaborative Web Platform
Pantheon Systems, Inc6 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$164k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of a real-time content platform, including data models, synchronization protocols, APIs, and client-side state management.
- Build backend services for collaborative editing, conflict resolution, and content delivery across distributed cloud infrastructure.
- Build frontend systems for visual real-time editing, page building, and publishing workflows.
- Own the integration layer between the editing experience and the platform, including APIs, webhooks, and the developer-facing extension model.
- Define engineering standards for API design, testing, performance, and observability.
- Evaluate third-party services, libraries, and infrastructure components using build-versus-buy tradeoffs.
- Partner with product and design on architecture, interaction models, technical strategies, and phased delivery plans.
- Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, architecture feedback, and technical documentation.
- Engage with customers and partners to validate architectural assumptions and integration patterns.
Requirements
- 10+ years of overall software engineering experience.
- Strong production experience across backend APIs, data services, cloud infrastructure, interactive user interfaces, component systems, and browser performance.
- Experience building real-time or collaborative systems, event-driven architectures, or live data synchronization.
- Experience designing and operating cloud-native services in GCP, AWS, Cloudflare, or Azure, including containerization and modern deployment pipelines.
- Strong API design expertise involving REST, GraphQL, and event-driven interfaces.
- Expertise in frontend architecture, including component modeling, state management, rendering performance, and the browser platform.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with visual or low-code editing interfaces, CMS architectures, developer-facing platforms or extension systems, and open-source web tooling is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote-forward work environment with in-office workspace available in San Francisco and Chicago.
- Flexible time off, sick days, and 13 paid holidays.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid parental leave plus fertility, adoption, and other family-planning benefits.
- Monthly allowance for wellness and reading, plus access to LinkedIn Learning.
- Team and company-wide events and activities.
- Industry-competitive compensation and equity plan.
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About Pantheon Systems, Inc
Pantheon Systems provides a WebOps PaaS for building, hosting, and scaling Drupal, WordPress, and Next.js sites, with integrated CI/CD, governance, CDN, and security. It sells subscription plans to enterprises, agencies, and universities that manage multi-site portfolios and developer workflows in the cloud. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company powers 300,000+ websites for organizations such as Google, Princeton, Clorox, Salesloft, and the United Nations.