Platform Engineering Leader, Managed Hosting for WordPress (Remote U.S.)

Job Details

Job ID: R022852
Location: Arizona, United States (Remote)
Department: IT Operations

Location Details

This is a fully remote position, allowing you to work from home. Occasional visits to a GoDaddy office may be required for team events or meetings.

Eligibility Restrictions: This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, the Virgin Islands, California, Seattle, or NYC.

Join Our Team

GoDaddy's Managed Hosting for WordPress platform supports website designers, developers, and entrepreneurs. We are seeking an experienced leader to drive our platform engineering efforts, focusing on evolving a next-generation architecture. This role involves leveraging modern technologies, scalable design principles, and AI-driven innovation to lead the evolution of a modern hosting platform powering millions of WordPress and application sites.

We are looking for a hands-on leader with deep expertise in platform engineering—specifically concerning cost, performance, security, and scale—who can also drive the adoption of AI and agentic workflows to transform our stack.

What You'll Get To Do

• Lead a team responsible for building and extending a high-scale, cost-efficient, and secure hosting platform.
• Drive modernization initiatives using cloud-native architecture, automation, and developer experience best practices.
• Integrate AI and agentic capabilities into both existing and new platform components.
• Collaborate across product, security, and operations teams to deliver new features and maintain robust compliance.
• Mentor engineers, fostering platform expertise and curiosity about emerging technologies.
• Support and explore infrastructure-related initiatives beyond the WordPress platform.
• Leverage automation to simplify tasks and build highly performant components.

Required Experience

Your experience should include:

• Proven experience leading platform engineering teams for large-scale, high-availability hosting or cloud platforms.
• Deep expertise in managing cost, performance, security, and scalability.
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure (AWS, OpenStack), automation, and developer tooling.
• Experience integrating new technologies, including AI/ML, into existing platforms.
• Experience with AI/ML tools, agentic workflows, or intelligent automation.
• Familiarity with cost optimization (FinOps), performance monitoring, and platform security best practices.
• Experience supporting WordPress and other modern application stacks.

Desirable Technical Knowledge

Candidates might also have knowledge of our tech stack, including:

• AI: MCPs, LLMs.
• Orchestration: HashiCorp Nomad, Docker, Cilium.
• Networking: AWS NLB, Traefik, CoreDNS.
• Storage: EBS CSI, FSx, CephFS.
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana.
• Databases: etcd, Redis.
• Application Technologies: nginx unit, PHP, Node.js.
• IaC & Config: AWS CDK, Terraform, Ansible.
• Security Tools: OIDC proxy, SELinux, Illumio.

Total Rewards and Benefits

We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location.

About GoDaddy

GoDaddy empowers everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. We prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. If you require assistance completing your application, please reach out to [email protected].

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