Senior, VPS Hosting Engineer

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.

This role is for a dedicated innovation team that works closely with senior executives and tech leadership, focused on rapid prototyping, POCs, and taking experimental ideas to market. You will be the team building the next generation of Bluehost products. We’re looking for a Senior VPS Hosting Engineer to design and scale the infrastructure powering our hosting platform, supporting shared, VPS, and dedicated environments, and help evolve our platform into an intelligent infrastructure layer that supports millions of customers with performance, reliability, and scale.

You’ll play a key role in ensuring our systems are performant, reliable, and continuously evolving to meet the needs of a growing platform.

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

• Design, build, and maintain scalable VPS and hosting infrastructure
• Develop automation using Python, Bash, or other scripting languages
• AI/ML ops experience (anomaly detection, predictive monitoring, AIOps tooling), Kubernetes/container orchestration specifics, and WordPress-specific hosting knowledge (PHP-FPM, MySQL optimization, wp-cron, caching layers).
• Enhance environments across WordPress, shared, and VPS hosting
• Design and operate AI-enhanced hosting infrastructure at scale
• Build systems for self-healing, auto-scaling, and intelligent optimization
• Leverage AI to predict failures and automate remediation
• You will build the intelligent infrastructure layer that makes Bluehost’s hosting platform self-aware.
• Develop tooling for provisioning, monitoring, and orchestration
• Contribute to infrastructure improvements and new hosting capabilities
• Explore automation opportunities to improve performance and efficiency

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

• 5–8+ years of experience in hosting, infrastructure, or systems engineering
• Deep expertise in Linux, VPS environments, and virtualization
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.)
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of networking and performance optimization
• Comfortable working in high-scale, production-critical environments

Why you’ll love us.

• 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. We provide excellent Health Insurance options to fit you, HSA, Medical, Dental, Vision, Matching 401K, Life/AD&D/STD/LTD, Tuition Reimbursement, Pet Insurance, Generous vacation policy, and much more!
• 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!

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Employment with Newfold Digital is at-will and nothing in this Job Description should be interpreted or construed to alter the at-will employment relationship.

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.