Senior Software Engineer, Connectivity – API Transformation

Pantheon Platform

. Build and evolve Pantheon's unified API: a federated GraphQL supergraph and Go subgraphs serving the Dashboard and public API .

Posted 9/28/2026full-timeRemote • United States, CanadaSenior💰 $139,680 - $174,600 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating production services using Go, with a strong focus on API design, cloud networking, and observability. Capable of evolving legacy systems and ensuring high availability and reliability in distributed environments.

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Go ProgrammingAPI DesignCloud NetworkingKubernetesObservability Tooling

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Hard Skills

GraphQLGRPCRESTPythonRustCassandraTerraformCI/CD PipelinesCloud RunGCP

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationMentorship

Tools & Technologies

Grafana CloudPrometheusOpenTelemetryDockerCircleCIGitHub ActionsVaultAlloyDBMySQLRedis

Industry Keywords

Distributed SystemsService MeshesService DiscoveryVPCLoad Balancing

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CassandraCloudDistributed SystemsDNSDockerDrupalGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGraphQLGRPCKubernetesMySQLPrometheusPythonRedisRustTerraformVaultWordPressGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and evolve Pantheon's unified API: a federated GraphQL supergraph and Go subgraphs serving the Dashboard and public API
Shape service connectivity through VPC and network architecture, service discovery strategy, and internal traffic standards
Decompose a large legacy Python monolith into well-bounded services and own the Cassandra data layer, including replication, backup, and disaster recovery
Design and operate workflow orchestration at platform scale using GCP Workflows, Pub/Sub-driven job execution, and Go services on Cloud Run
Set GraphQL, gRPC, and REST standards for other engineering teams and serve as a technical resource across the organization
Own production systems, track health with SLOs, resolve production issues, and balance delivery speed with reliability
Participate in on-call engineering and alert response rotations
Raise engineering quality through code review, design feedback, and mentorship

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant work experience building and operating production services in Go, with adaptability to work in a polyglot codebase including Rust and Python
Experience designing APIs with schema design, versioning, and backward compatibility judgment; GraphQL, gRPC, or REST at scale
Work-related experience with large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems and scalable, robust services
Experience carving services out of a monolith or evolving a legacy system incrementally while keeping it running
Working knowledge of cloud networking fundamentals: VPCs, DNS, load balancing, and service-to-service authentication
Understanding and working knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and release engineering practices
Experience with a major cloud provider; GCP especially welcome
Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry
Experience supporting live sites and participating in on-call
Clear communication skills and ability to represent contributions and ideas clearly while remaining open to others
Visa sponsorship is not available at this time
Bonus points: GraphQL Federation, federation gateways or routers, schema registries, Rust, Cassandra, stateful datastores, legacy runtime migrations, private service networking, service meshes, GCP Workflows, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud Build, AlloyDB, MySQL, Redis, Docker, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Vault, WordPress, Drupal

Benefits

Comp & perks

Industry competitive compensation and equity plan
Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Sick Leave (PSL) and 11 Paid Company Holidays
Full medical coverage (Extended health care, dental, vision)
Top-of-line equipment
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
Bonus