--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Connectivity & API Transformation at Pantheon Systems, Inc' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-connectivity-api-transformation-pantheon-systems-inc-rghp65gys6zv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-14' --- # Senior Software Engineer, Connectivity & API Transformation at Pantheon Systems, Inc - **Company:** Pantheon Systems, Inc - **Location:** United States - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14 - **Apply:** https://pantheon.io/about/careers/detail?gh_jid=8226934 ## Job description ## About Pantheon Pantheon is the WebOps platform for websites that deliver extraordinary results. We believe in putting the magic of the internet in everyone's hands. That's why we're so passionate about helping developers, IT and marketing develop, test, and release website changes faster and more reliably so they can build and maintain websites that create value for their organizations. Our cloud native software makes it easy to securely manage a single website or thousands of websites across multiple teams in one platform. Pantheon's core company values are Trust, Teamwork, Passion, and Customers First. At Pantheon, we work hard and play harder, valuing individuality, humor, and balance. We're enthusiastic participants in several open-source communities and have real relationships with many of our most active customers. If all of this sounds interesting to you, read on! ## The Role Pantheon is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Connectivity & API Transformation team. We're expanding an impressive and growing platform that powers hundreds of thousands of websites, millions of containerized resources, billions of monthly page views, and development tools that professional website developers use. Our team owns the connective tissue of that platform: the federated GraphQL API that every Pantheon surface is built on, the network layer and discovery patterns that let our services find and reach each other, the orchestration layer that runs customer-facing automation, and the ongoing work of decomposing our legacy core into well-bounded modern services. It's a role with unusual leverage — the interfaces and pathways you design become the contract that every other engineering team at Pantheon builds against. Pantheon's core company values are Trust, Teamwork, Passion, and Customers First. Additionally, the Pantheon engineering teams are built around a focus on collaboration, character, autonomy, and a no-blame culture. We're enthusiastic participants in several open-source communities and have real relationships with many of our most active customers. If all of this sounds interesting to you, read on! ## What You'll Be Doing - Building and evolving Pantheon's unified API — a federated GraphQL supergraph (Grafbase, Federation v2) and the Go subgraphs behind it that serve our Dashboard and public API - Shaping how Pantheon's services find and reach one another — VPC and network architecture, service discovery strategy, and the connectivity standards our internal traffic runs on - Decomposing a large legacy Python monolith into well-bounded services, and owning the Cassandra data layer behind it — replication, backup, and disaster recovery - Designing and operating workflow orchestration at platform scale: GCP Workflows, Pub/Sub-driven job execution, and Go services on Cloud Run that run customer-facing automation - Setting the GraphQL, gRPC, and REST standards other Pantheon teams build against, and acting as a technical resource for initiatives across the org - Owning your team's production systems — tracking health with SLOs, resolving production issues, and balancing delivery speed against reliability - Supporting Pantheon as a member of our on-call engineering rotation and your team's alert response rotation - Raising the level of engineers around you through code review, design feedback, and mentorship ## What You Need to Succeed - Significant work experience building and operating production services in Go, and the adaptability to work in a polyglot codebase — our stack also includes Rust and Python - Experience designing APIs that other teams depend on, with real judgment about schema design, versioning, and backward compatibility. GraphQL, gRPC, or REST at scale all count - Work-related experience with large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems, and with designing scalable and robust services in the real world - Experience carving services out of a monolith, or otherwise evolving a legacy system incrementally while keeping it running - Working knowledge of cloud networking fundamentals — VPCs, DNS, load balancing, and service-to-service authentication — and the judgment to make network boundaries a deliberate design choice rather than an accident - Understanding and working knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and release engineering practices - Experience with a major cloud provider; GCP especially welcome - Experience leveraging observability tooling like Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry to understand systems in production - Experience supporting live sites and participating in on-call - Clear communication skills and the ability to represent your contributions and ideas with clarity while remaining open and giving space to the contributions and ideas of others Bonus Points - Hands-on experience with GraphQL Federation, a federation gateway or router (Grafbase, Apollo, Hive), or a schema registry - Working knowledge of Rust - Experience with Cassandra, or with running a stateful datastore in production — backups, DR, multi-region replication - Experience migrating off end-of-life language runtimes (for example, Python 2) - Hands-on experience with private service networking or a service mesh — Shared VPC, VPC peering, Private Service Connect, internal DNS, Istio/Envoy - Working knowledge of GCP Workflows, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud Build - Working knowledge of AlloyDB, MySQL, Redis - Working knowledge of Docker, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Vault - Working knowledge of WordPress, Drupal ## 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 - 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 Compensation: $139,680-$174,600 USD annual salary plus bonus and equity Pantheon is an equal opportunity action 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 talent@pantheon.io. Pursuant to local and federal regulations, Pantheon will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment. To review the Employee and Applicant's Privacy Policy, click [here](https://pantheon.pactsafe.io/employeeandapplicantprivacy.html). Visa Sponsorship is not available at this time. ## About Pantheon Systems, Inc ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Pantheon provides a WebOps platform that unifies web infrastructure, workflows, and governance for building, hosting, and managing Drupal and WordPress websites at scale. - **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-Backed; Series E) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2010 - **Founders**: Josh Koenig, Matt Cheney, David Moffly, and others (early team from the Drupal and WordPress ecosystem) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Web Operations (WebOps) Platform, Managed Web Hosting, Cloud Infrastructure for Content Management Systems (CMS) - Target customers: B2B, primarily serving Enterprise and mid-market organizations, including universities, government agencies, technology companies, and major consumer brands. Also serves digital agencies building and managing client sites. - Mission or purpose statement: To empower teams to build, scale, and deliver exceptional digital experiences by streamlining WebOps, allowing them to focus on creating engaging content rather than managing infrastructure. ## Products & Services - **[Pantheon Platform]**: The core SaaS platform that provides a unified workflow for development, hosting, security, and performance management for Drupal and WordPress sites. It includes features like multidev environments, automated backups, a global CDN, and a serverless CMS architecture. - **[Autopilot]**: An automated governance and update tool that applies security patches, core updates, and plugin updates across a portfolio of websites, reducing manual maintenance and security risks. - **[Global CDN (Content Delivery Network)]**: A high-performance, globally distributed network designed to accelerate page load times and handle massive traffic spikes (over 17 billion monthly page views). - **[Professional Services & Support]**: Includes onboarding, migration services, and 24/7 support for enterprise customers. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed for the last round; previous reports suggested a valuation around $1 billion (unicorn status) after the Series E round. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding: $196.8M raised. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: SoftBank, Foundry Group, Scale Venture Partners, Industry Ventures, Sageview Capital, and others (backers of Heroku, ExactTarget, and SendGrid). Partners with major digital agencies and technology providers. - **Growth Signals**: Hosts over 700,000 websites and serves 2,500+ agency partners. Employs approximately 525 people (as of 2026). Processes over 17 billion monthly page views for its customers. Continues to expand its platform capabilities with AI and serverless features. ## Competitive Advantages - **Single, Integrated Platform**: Unlike competitors that require stitching together separate hosting, security, and workflow tools, Pantheon offers a unified platform for the entire web lifecycle. - **Deep CMS Specialization**: Built exclusively for Drupal and WordPress, offering unparalleled performance and workflow optimizations for these open-source ecosystems. - **Developer-Centric Workflow**: Features like multidev environments and Git-based deployments are designed to appeal to engineering teams, reducing friction between developers and marketers. - **Scale and Reliability**: Proven infrastructure capable of handling massive traffic for major global brands (e.g., Tableau, LA Tourism). ## Strategic Focus - **AI and Automation**: Integrating AI into the platform to automate routine WebOps tasks, including content updates, security patching, and performance optimization. - **Serverless CMS**: Pushing the boundaries of serverless architecture for CMS to improve scalability and reduce hosting costs for customers. - **Enterprise Expansion**: Continuing to win large, complex organizations in regulated industries (education, government, healthcare) that require robust security and compliance features. - **Community Growth**: Deepening its ecosystem of agency partners and open-source contributors to drive platform adoption and innovation. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes a culture of "teamwork, passion, and customer first." The company is described as having a diverse and passionate team that is "unafraid to think differently." - **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Supports a flexible employee experience. The San Francisco office is a hub for collaboration, but remote work is embraced. The company has offices in 4 countries. - **Benefits & Perks**: - **Paid Parental Leave**: Up to 8 weeks of paid leave for bonding with a new child. - **Family Planning Support**: Comprehensive coverage including abortive care, travel reimbursements for family planning, and support for the transgender community (gender reassignment services). - **Health & Wellness**: Comprehensive healthcare benefits, mental health coverage, and a monthly book and gym allowance. - **Professional Development**: Access to LinkedIn Learning, company-led training, and leadership forums. - **Giving Back**: Employee donation matching program ($500/year) and team volunteer opportunities. - **Flexible Time-Off**: Encourages work/life balance with a flexible PTO policy. - **Inclusivity**: Active Employee Resource Groups (PRGs) and a stated commitment to diversity and inclusion. - **Engineering Culture**: A focus on building a "world-class WebOps Platform" using modern technologies. Engineers work on challenging problems at scale (billions of monthly page views). ## Sources 1. [pantheon.io](https://pantheon.io/about) 2. [pantheon.io](https://pantheon.io/about/careers) 3. [pantheon.io](https://pantheon.io/about/careers/openings) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/pantheon-systems) 5. 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