Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pantheon is a remote-forward WebOps company that provides a platform for building, managing, and scaling websites. The Engineering Manager will lead the development of account management and identity services, balancing hands-on technical leadership with people management and a focus on security, AI-enabled workflows, and customer needs.
Responsibilities
- Drive frontend and backend excellence across the team’s services, maintaining the highest level of reliability for both customers and our own engineers
- Architect our backend systems using modern design patterns and technologies
- Work with partners across Product, Security, UX, and Design to drive a technical roadmap centered around the evolving needs of our customers
- Bring the best of the industry to the team, whether that’s new developments in agentic tooling, open source technologies, or exciting vendors to evaluate
- Apply a security mindset to everything that we build, keeping our customers' safety front of mind
- Use data and retrospectives to consistently evolve the productivity and well-being of your team
- Set a high performance bar for your team, measured by roadmap success, technical excellence, and high levels of individual growth
- Hire, coach, and grow engineers with hands-on guidance, building a culture of ownership, accountability, and knowledge sharing
- Mentor senior engineers to the next level by purposefully delegating leadership responsibilities and making space for stretch development goals
- Navigate hard conversations with empathy and authenticity, treat failures as learning moments, and create space for your team to drive success
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in software development, including a solid foundation as an individual contributor
- 3+ years of direct people management experience: leading a team, mentoring engineers, or tech-lead responsibilities with people ownership
- Track record of successfully launching and operating full stack, production-scale projects with stringent SLOs
- Deep knowledge of identity access management and other developer-focused security products
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or a similar language, enough to review code, tech designs, and engage credibly in technical discussion
- Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure: GCP (or equivalent cloud), serverless applications like Cloud Run, AWS Lambda or Azure Functions, and Terraform
- AI-native instincts: fluency with AI coding assistants and a track record of how they change how your teams work
- Authorization at scale: Familiarity with ReBAC and ABAC. (Zanzibar-style systems such as Auth0 FGA, OpenFGA, or SpiceDB)
- Multi-tenant account modeling: business accounts, organizations, workspaces, teams, and the role and permission hierarchies that connect them
- GraphQL API design, federation, and gateway architectures
- Search and indexing services (Elasticsearch or similar) and event-driven data pipelines (Pub/Sub or similar)
- Notification service for in-product, webhooks, SMS, email, and other third-party services
- Decommissioning legacy systems and running incremental migrations without customer disruption
- Vendor evaluation and build-vs-buy analysis for platform capabilities such as notifications or AI-powered support
- Developer-facing surfaces: CLIs and public APIs used by technical customers
Benefits
- Industry competitive compensation and equity plan
- Flexible time off, sick days, and 13 paid holidays
- Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision
- Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
- In-office workspace (San Francisco & Chicago)
- 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
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