Principal Engineer

Overview

Principal Engineer providing technical leadership for Bluehost's Hosting platform. The role focuses on architecture, reliability, SRE practices, legacy-system modernization, and AI-augmented delivery standards.

What you'll do

• Set technical direction and architecture standards for backend and infrastructure systems.
• Design and evolve Python backend services on Linux with MySQL at production scale.
• Modernize Perl-based and cPanel-integrated systems without disrupting live services.
• Drive SRE practices, incident response, and system hardening.
• Lead root-cause analysis for complex production issues and implement architectural fixes.
• Mentor senior and staff-level engineers and influence multi-team technical decisions.
• Shape multi-quarter technical roadmaps with engineering leadership.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Deep hands-on hosting-platform experience.
• Expert-level Python and Linux systems knowledge at production scale.
• Strong MySQL expertise in performance tuning, schema design, and troubleshooting.
• Deep hands-on experience with Perl and cPanel environments.
• Technical leadership experience across multiple teams.
• Experience using and governing AI across the delivery lifecycle.

Nice to have

• Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering and infrastructure practices.

Details

• Remote in Brazil.