Senior Drupal Engineer

Working Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST or at least 4hrs EST overlap

About the Role:

• CI/CD & Platform Automation

• Maintain and extend GitHub Actions-based CI/CD pipelines

• Manage automated workflows for:

• MultiDev environment creation (Pantheon)

• Canary deployments and phased releases

• Fleet-wide upstream deployments across 400+ sites

• Troubleshoot pipeline failures and improve resiliency and observability

• Enhance automation around release processes, including changelog generation and deployment validation

• Pantheon & Hosting Operations

• Work with Pantheon platform tooling, including:

• Terminus CLI

• MultiDev environments

• Upstream management and site orchestration

• Support platform stability, deployment workflows, and environment lifecycle management

• Drupal Engineering (Backend Focus)

• Contribute to and maintain a Drupal 10-based multi-tenant platform

• Develop and support custom modules, integrations, and backend logic

• Debug and resolve issues across a shared codebase impacting multiple sites

• Ensure best practices for performance, security, and maintainability

• Automation & Observability

• Extend automation using tools like: Quicksilver (event-driven workflows), Messaging integrations (e.g., Google Chat notifications)

• Improve visibility into system health, deployment outcomes, and failures

• 3–6+ years experience with Drupal (8/9/10) and PHP Experience working with Pantheon hosting platform

• Hands-on experience with:
  Terminus CLI
  MultiDev workflows
  Upstream-based Drupal architectures
  Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)

• Comfortable debugging across:
  Application code
  Deployment pipelines
  Hosting/platform environments

• Systems & Engineering Mindset

• Experience working in multi-site or multi-tenant architectures

• Strong understanding of:
  Version control (Git)
  Deployment strategies (canary, phased rollouts)
  Environment management (dev/test/prod isolation)
  Ability to work across both application code and infrastructure workflows

Nice-to-Have (Bonus Skills):

• Frontend experience with:
  Vue.js
  TypeScript

• Scripting or backend experience with:
  Node.js or Python

• Experience with:
  Accessibility standards (WCAG, VPAT)
  Search platforms (e.g., MongoDB Atlas Search, vector search, RAG systems)
  Familiarity with release automation patterns (auto-generated changelogs, commit parsing, etc.)

What Success Looks Like:

• CI/CD pipelines are stable, fast, and require minimal manual intervention

• Deployments across 400+ sites are predictable and low-risk

• Platform automation continues to evolve (not stagnate)

• Drupal platform remains stable and maintainable across tenants

• Issues are proactively identified through improved observability and alerts

Why This Role Matters

Our platform supports a large portfolio of enterprise websites with a bi-weekly release cadence. Maintaining and evolving the systems that power these releases is critical to platform stability, developer productivity, and client trust.

This role ensures we continue to operate at scale while improving the systems that make that scale possible.