[Hiring] Senior VPS Hosting Engineer @Newfold Digital

Role Description

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.

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Work-life balance
• Culture of diversity and inclusion
• Excellent Health Insurance options (HSA, Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Matching 401K
• Life/AD&D/STD/LTD
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Pet Insurance
• Generous vacation policy
• Opportunities for career growth and development