Site Reliability Manager, Wordpress

GoDaddy

11d • Remote

About The Position

GoDaddy's Managed Hosting for WordPress platform empowers website designers, developers, and entrepreneurs to grow and succeed in their online endeavors. We are seeking an experienced leader to support our platform engineering efforts as we evolve a next-generation architecture that leverages modern technologies, scalable design principles, and AI-driven innovation. Join us to lead the evolution of a modern hosting platform powering millions of WordPress and application sites. We're looking for a hands-on leader with deep experience in platform engineering—cost, performance, security, and scale—who can also drive the adoption of AI and agentic workflows as we transform our stack.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading platform engineering teams for large-scale, high-availability hosting or cloud platforms.
• Deep expertise in 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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), and Security tools (OIDC proxy, SELinux, Illumio).

Responsibilities

• Lead a team building and extending a high-scale, cost-efficient, secure hosting platform.
• Drive modernization 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 to deliver new features and maintain robust compliance.
• Mentor engineers, fostering both platform expertise and curiosity about emerging technologies.
• Support and explore other infrastructure related initiatives beyond the WordPress platform.
• Leverage automation to simplify tasks and build highly performant components.

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.
• We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture).
• Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs!
• Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees