Director of Engineering - Collaborative Web Platform

About Pantheon

Pantheon brings together exceptional builders who take ownership, drive meaningful impact, and shape what's next for the web. We power more than 300,000 websites globally for organizations including Google, Princeton, Salesloft, Clorox, and the United Nations. Every day, thousands of developers and marketers use our WebOps platform to build, iterate, and scale WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js sites that reach billions of people worldwide. As an employer, we operate with the same philosophy that drives our product: foundation and freedom. Pantheon is a vibrant, remote-forward team of experts who care deeply about their craft and results. Here, you take ownership of work that matters, contribute alongside exceptional people, and see the impact you create.

The Opportunity

Pantheon is seeking a visionary and hands-on Director of Engineering to lead the team building the next generation of web content infrastructure. This is a rare opportunity to define the technical and organizational foundation of a zero-to-one product — a real-time, collaborative editing platform that is redefining how content teams create, manage, and publish on the modern web.

Content management has remained largely unchanged for two decades. Pantheon is uniquely positioned — with deep roots in the web platform, a global CDN, and a sophisticated branching model trusted by thousands of organizations — to build the collaborative content experience that the modern web actually deserves. This Director of Engineering will lead the team doing exactly that.

The Role

This role sits at the intersection of product leadership and technical execution. You will own the engineering organization for this product area: recruiting and developing engineers and engineering managers, setting the technical direction, and driving delivery from early-stage architecture through to a scaled, production platform. You will partner closely with product, design, and go-to-market to turn a compelling vision into a platform that developers and content teams love.

This is not a role for someone who prefers steady-state management. It is a role for a builder — someone energized by ambiguity, passionate about product craft, and capable of leading a high-performing team through the nonlinear work of inventing something new.

What You Need to Succeed

Strategic & Organizational Leadership

• Define and execute the engineering strategy for the collaborative web platform, aligning technical investments with product milestones and long-term platform vision.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of engineers and engineering managers, establishing a culture of ownership, technical rigor, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with product and design leadership to translate vision into concrete engineering plans — breaking ambiguity into phased, deliverable roadmaps.
• Collaborate with executive leadership on resourcing strategy, headcount planning, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Represent engineering in go-to-market discussions, customer conversations, and partnership evaluations where technical credibility matters.

Technical Direction & Architecture

• Drive architectural decisions for the platform's core systems: real-time collaboration, branch-aware content state, API and integration layers, and visual editing infrastructure.
• Establish and champion engineering standards across the full stack — backend services, frontend systems, APIs, testing, observability, and deployment.
• Guide build-vs-buy decisions and technology selection with a clear framework for long-term scalability and developer experience.
• Maintain a strong technical point of view while remaining open to input — you will be a trusted thought partner for staff and principal engineers on the team.