Principal Engineer – Remote (Brazil)

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.

What You’ll Do & How You’ll Make Your Mark

• 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