About the role

Role overview

As a Staff Software Engineer at Pantheon, you will shape the architecture and development of a real-time collaborative web platform. You’ll work across the full stack and partner with product and design to turn ambiguous problems into concrete technical strategies and delivery plans.

Responsibilities

Design and own the architecture of a real-time content platform, including:
- data models
- sync protocols
- API surface
- client-side state management
Build backend services for collaborative editing, conflict resolution, and content delivery, ensuring reliability at scale on distributed cloud infrastructure.
Collaborate with product and design as a technical partner by:
- translating tradeoffs into product-ready plans
- producing crisp design docs
- delivering phased execution strategies

Requirements

10+ years of overall software engineering experience with strong end-to-end ownership.
Full-stack capability, shipping production systems on both:
- backend (APIs, data services, cloud infrastructure)
- frontend (interactive UIs, component systems, browser performance)
Ability to reason about distributed state management and create a low-latency browser editing experience.
Clear communicator: explain complex technical tradeoffs, write design docs, and improve teammates through high-quality feedback.
Systems thinking with deliberate tradeoff-making to avoid future debt.
Cloud-native fluency (GCP/AWS/Azure/Cloudflare), including containerization and modern CI/CD/deployment pipelines.
Experience with real-time or collaborative systems (e.g., content editing, multiplayer, event-driven architectures, live sync).
Deep frontend architecture skills: component modeling, state management, rendering performance, and browser platform knowledge.
API design expertise, including when to use REST, GraphQL, and event-driven interfaces.

Nice to haves

Experience with visual or low-code editing (page builders, WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop component systems).
Familiarity with CMS architectures (headless/hybrid/traditional) and real-world tradeoffs.
Contributions to open-source in web platform or developer tooling.
Experience building developer-facing platforms/extensions (SDKs, plugin APIs, CLI tooling).

About Pantheon

Pantheon builds web content infrastructure, focusing on the systems that power modern websites and content workflows. The role emphasizes developing a technically challenging real-time, collaborative content platform, indicating expertise at the intersection of web infrastructure, CMS architectures, and collaborative editing.

Staff Software Engineer (Collaborative Web Platform)

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