Manager, SRE- WordPress Platform

Location Details: 

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

Remote: This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.  

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

GoDaddy is not currently considering candidates for this role in California, Seattle, or NYC.

Join Our Team...

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.

What you'll get to do...

• 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.

Your experience should include...

• 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.

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

We've got your back...  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 and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

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. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

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. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to [email protected]. 

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