Engineering Lead – AI & Developer Platform

Who we are. At Bluehost, we believe all small businesses deserve the opportunity to succeed online. Our mission is to give small businesses the confidence to think big. We're the all-in-one platform for small businesses to grow online with powerful simplicity, premium performance, smart tools and human support. We’re looking for a strong engineering lead to drive next-generation AI and Developer Platform initiatives across multiple brands and product ecosystems. This role is ideal for someone who can operate hands-on at the architecture level while also leading platform thinking, developer experience improvements, AI integrations, automation, observability, and scalable engineering practices. The person will work closely with product, infrastructure, platform, and application engineering teams to modernize internal systems and accelerate AI adoption across customer-facing and internal platforms

What you’ll do & how you’ll make your mark.

• Lead architecture and implementation of AI-powered platform initiatives
• Build scalable developer platform capabilities for engineering teams
• Drive AI integrations across customer flows, internal tools, automation, and support systems
• Improve engineering productivity through tooling, workflows, CI/CD, observability, and automation
• Define long-term technical direction for platform modernization
• Partner with Infra, SRE, Security, and Product teams for platform reliability and scalability
• Establish engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices
• Mentor engineers and influence cross-functional technical decisions
• Evaluate and introduce modern AI tooling, LLM integrations, RAG systems, copilots, and agentic workflows
• Drive operational excellence around logging, monitoring, telemetry, debugging, and platform reliability

Core Engineering

• Strong experience in distributed systems and scalable web platforms
• Deep understanding of backend architecture and APIs
• Strong coding skills in Java, Node.js, Python, or Go
• Experience designing highly available and scalable systems
• Strong system design and architecture fundamentals

AI & Platform Experience

• Hands-on experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into products or workflows
• Understanding of prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, and RAG pipelines
• Experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or similar AI platforms
• Familiarity with developer productivity tooling and platform engineering concepts
• Exposure to AI-assisted coding workflows and internal engineering copilots

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Strong Kubernetes and container orchestration experience
• Experience with Terraform, Helm, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
• Experience with OCI, AWS, or GCP
• Strong understanding of observability tools such as Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, ClickHouse, and OpenTelemetry
• Understanding of platform reliability and SRE principles

Leadership Expectations

• Ability to lead ambiguous and fast-moving initiatives
• Strong ownership mindset and execution capability
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Comfortable working across product, infra, and engineering teams
• Ability to challenge existing systems and drive modernization
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical discussion

Who you are & what you’ll need to succeed.

• 6–10+ years of engineering experience
• Experience building internal developer platforms
• Experience in large-scale enterprise or multi-brand ecosystems
• Knowledge of identity systems, authentication, SSO, or platform integrations
• Exposure to AI governance and AI security
• Experience with event-driven systems and workflow orchestration
• Previously worked as Senior Engineer, Staff Engineer, Tech Lead, Principal Engineer, or Engineering Lead
• Hands-on builder with strong architecture skills
• Passionate about AI evolution and developer tooling
• Able to balance speed, scalability, and business impact

Why you’ll love us.

• We’ve evolved: We provide three work environment scenarios. You can feel like a Newfolder in a work-from-home, hybrid, or work-from-the-office environment.
• Work-life balance: Our work is thrilling and meaningful, but we know balance is key to living well.
• We celebrate one another’s differences: We’re proud of our culture of diversity and inclusion. We foster a culture of belonging. Our company and customers benefit when employees bring their authentic selves to work. We have programs that bring us together on important issues and provide learning and development opportunities for all employees. We have 20+ affinity groups where you can network and connect with employees globally.
• We care about you: At Bluehost, taking care of our employees is our top priority. We make sure that cutting edge benefits are in place for you. Some of the benefits you will have: We have partnered with some of the best insurance providers to provide you excellent Health Insurance options, Education/ Certification Sponsorships to give you a chance to further your knowledge, Flexi-leaves to take personal time off and much more. Building a community with one domain at a time, one employee at a time.
• Where can we take you? We’re fans of helping our employees learn different aspects of the business, be challenged with new tasks, be mentored, and grow their careers. Unfold new possibilities with Bluehost #OTOD!

This Job Description includes the essential job functions required to perform the job described above, as well as additional duties and responsibilities. This Job Description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee performing this job may be required to perform. The Company reserves the right to revise the Job Description at any time, and to require the employee to perform functions in addition to those listed above.