Location Details: Remote - India
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.
Join our Hosting Team as a Principal engineer. Your decisions will build GoDaddy's platform for years to come. You will have the autonomy to drive technical strategy, the resources to think big, and a hardworking team that trusts your expertise. If you want to work on problems at a serious scale while leaving a lasting technical legacy, this is it.
What you'll get to do...
- Develop and build secure, scalable services to support millions of customer workloads, making strategic improvements to our platform.
- Set high standards for coding, testing, and security. Lead technical discussions and help develop the direction of GoDaddy’s hosting platform.
- Share your expertise to help teams deliver value, develop collaboration and support ongoing learning and growth.
- Improve monitoring and observability to quickly identify and resolve issues in production systems.
- Work with teams across GoDaddy to address broad challenges and promote newest technology solutions.
Your experience should include...
- 8+ years building and supporting high traffic critical software systems.
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages (such as Ruby, Java, Node.js, Python, Go, or PHP), with strong experience in AWS, CI/CD, Git, messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Experience crafting scalable architectures, including high performance REST APIs.
- Hands on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Puppet, Ansible), Linux environments, and working with both SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (Redis, Cassandra) databases.
- Strong sense of ownership, able to deliver results independently and collaboratively and committed to continuous improvement and learning.
You might also have...
- Hosting platform or large scale SaaS/PaaS experience
- Open source contributions or project maintenance
- Experience employing AI-powered development tools to accelerate delivery
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].
GoDaddy doesn’t accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.


