Principal Engineer

Newfold Digital•Florida - Remote, NS

About The Position

We're looking for a Principal Engineer to bring deep technical leadership to our Hosting platform at a pivotal moment for the business. This is a high-impact senior individual contributor role for someone who's run large-scale hosting infrastructure end-to-end (Python, Linux, MySQL at scale, Perl, cPanel) and wants to shape architecture, reliability, and SRE practice as Bluehost modernizes and grows.

Requirements

10+ years of backend/infrastructure engineering experience, including deep, hands-on hosting-platform expertise
Expert-level Python and Linux systems knowledge at real production scale
Strong MySQL expertise, including performance tuning, schema design, and large-scale troubleshooting
Deep hands-on experience in Perl and cPanel environments, with a track record of modernizing legacy systems without breaking them
Proven technical leadership: setting direction, mentoring engineers, and influencing decisions across multiple teams
Excellent judgment operating in complex, high-scale, customer-facing SaaS environments under real business pressure

Nice To Haves

Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering and infrastructure practice, applying architectural patterns for systemic resilience, fault isolation, and operational governance
AI-augmented delivery: you use AI across the delivery lifecycle, not just code generation, and can say which models suit which problems and where you don't use them. You have set the org-wide standard for how AI-generated code is reviewed, how provenance and licensing are handled, and what customer data enters a prompt — and you can show how you measured adoption and outcomes against it, including what a security or compliance review will ask for.

Responsibilities

Set technical direction and architecture standards for backend and infrastructure systems across the Hosting org
Design and evolve large-scale Python backend services running on Linux, backed by MySQL at production scale
Bring deep, hands-on expertise on Perl-based and cPanel-integrated systems, guiding their modernization without disrupting live customer sites or live provisioning automations
Drive site reliability engineering practice across Hosting, partnering closely with DevOps and SRE functions on incident response and system hardening
Own the org-wide standard for AI-augmented delivery: where AI is used across the lifecycle and where it isn't, how generated code is reviewed, how provenance and licensing are handled, and what customer data may enter a prompt — and measure whether the standard is actually holding
Lead root-cause analysis on the most complex, highest-impact production issues, and turn findings into durable architectural fixes
Mentor senior and staff-level engineers, raising the technical bar and influencing how the broader org builds and operates
Partner with engineering leadership to shape multi-quarter technical roadmaps that support Bluehost's growth trajectory