| Location | Calabasas, CA |
| Salary | $130,000–$195,000 Per Year |
Principal Staff Engineer, Web Platform
Location Calabasas, CA 91302 Date Posted October 01, 2026 Job ID 14652 Employment Type Direct Hire
Scion Technology has been engaged to conduct a search for an experienced Principal Staff Engineer (PHP / Web Platform) for our client, a global leader in make-on-demand ecommerce.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
We are looking for a highly hands-on PHP Engineer to help build, maintain, and support a high-traffic global web platform. This is a coding-first role - approximately 80% hands-on PHP development and 20% AWS / production operations. You'll spend the majority of your time building and improving PHP applications while also serving as a senior technical resource when production issues arise.
PERKS:
Work on a high-traffic global web platform supporting multiple consumer brands
Stay highly hands-on while having meaningful technical ownership and influence
Own problems across both application development and production operations
Join an environment where experienced engineers have autonomy and visibility across the platform
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Design, develop, and maintain production applications using PHP, Laravel/Symfony, MySQL, Linux, and the LAMP stack
Build new features, improve existing applications, review code, and contribute to technical design and architecture
Support and troubleshoot AWS-hosted production environments, including EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, and related services
Investigate website outages, performance degradation, server issues, application errors, and other production incidents
Monitor application and infrastructure health and help maintain strong uptime and reliability
Troubleshoot performance across PHP applications, MySQL databases, caching, servers, APIs, and infrastructure
Help protect customer-facing websites from security threats, abnormal traffic, and attacks
Improve application performance and scalability for high-traffic web environments
Participate in deployments, root-cause analysis, monitoring, and ongoing reliability improvements
Collaborate with a China-based engineering team on development, code reviews, releases, and technical problem-solving
QUALIFICATIONS:
5-7+ years of professional PHP development experience, with PHP remaining a significant part of your current/recent work
Strong hands-on experience with Laravel and/or Symfony
Strong LAMP stack experience: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
Hands-on experience supporting applications and servers in AWS
Experience troubleshooting live production issues and website outages
Ability to work across both application code and the infrastructure supporting it
Experience with monitoring, performance optimization, scalability, and web security
Strong MySQL/database troubleshooting and optimization skills
Comfortable working independently and taking ownership when production issues arise
Experience collaborating with offshore or globally distributed engineering teams
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:
ABOUT OUR FIRM:
Scion Staffing is a national award-winning staffing firm! Since 2006, we have had the pleasure of successfully placing thousands of talented professionals with amazing career opportunities. Through our innovative team building and recruiting solutions, we bridge the gap in executive leadership searches, direct hire recruiting, interim leadership placement, and temporary professional staffing. We are proud to be part of the Forbes lists of the Best Recruitment Firms and the Best Executive Search Firms in America. Additionally, Scion has been recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm as well as a top recruitment firm by The Business Times. Additional information about our firm can also be found online.
Scion Staffing, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and the candidates we represent. For opportunities located in a region that have enacted fair chance, arrest or conviction-based employment ordinances, Scion Staffing proactively follows the enacted guidance and considers for employment all qualified applications with arrest and conviction records. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of Scion as well as every client organization with whom we partner.