Engineering Manager, Pulumi
Languages & Software Development Kits
$180.5-227.8k
+ Bonus or Variable + Equity
Universal infrastructure as code
Open for applications
Universal infrastructure as code
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$180.5-227.8k
+ Bonus or Variable + Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratize the cloud for every engineer.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years leading software engineering teams and mentoring senior-level talent
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping SDKs or language integrations
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code
- Strong problem-solving skills: first-principles thinking, graph algorithms, dependency resolution
- Excellent communicator able to engage engineers, product teams, and executives
- Preferred: open source contributor: triaged issues, reviewed PRs, and built community engagement
What the job involves
- We are looking for experienced engineering managers that are excited to bring Pulumi’s cloud programming model to the world. You will be a part of realizing a vision where every developer can harness the power of the cloud
- Pulumi makes cloud development accessible by letting teams write real code. Our Languages & SDKs group maintains the open-source libraries and core engine powering Pulumi in Go, Python, TypeScript, .NET, and more
- We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to grow this team, align technical direction, and support our vibrant community
- Mentor and grow a distributed team of talented engineers
- Facilitate technical career development, performance reviews, and hands-on coaching
- Recruit top talent and create an inclusive, collaborative culture
- Define and own the team roadmap in partnership with Product and Leadership
- Translate customer and community feedback into technical priorities
- Balance innovation (new language support, distributed systems primitives) with quality, performance, and reliability
- Evaluate technical trade-offs: backwards compatibility, performance, test coverage, and API ergonomics
- Oversee project planning: set clear milestones, manage cross-functional dependencies, and remove blockers
- Establish and reinforce best practices for design reviews, automated testing, performance benchmarking, and documentation
- Monitor team metrics (velocity, quality, support trends) and continuously iterate on process
- Represent Pulumi within the open source community and with paying customers
- Triage issues and pull requests, ensuring timely responses and clear guidelines
- Champion an open, transparent release cadence and clear upgrade paths
- Partner with other engineering teams to surface SDK requirements and API coverage gaps
- Partner with Support and Customer Success on critical bug fixes and escalations
Our take
The Infrastructure-as-code space is new and growing, thanks to the increasing complexity of cloud services, and their increasing adoption by developers and teams who would rather not manage them. Pulumi works to bring together infrastructure, developer, and security teams to help build and operate these cloud applications, better.
The service is compatible with all clouds and all major programming languages, meaning it’s casting its net appropriately wide to shore itself up against unpredictable new developments in the market. This breadth of scope saw Pulumi win 10x growth in adoption over 2019 alone, and the company has since expanded out into what it hopes will provide a more comprehensive cloud engineering platform. This means the addition of capabilities like governance and compliance features, testing support, and policy as code - all shoring up its already strong position in the space.
Also playing firmly in Pulumi’s favor is that it’s been built as cloud-native from the ground up, meaning that it has a head start on earlier infrastructure-as-code businesses that needed to pivot to accommodate new developments like serverless and multi-cloud tech. Plus, its multi-language compatibility means that silos don’t form so readily as they do with rival HashiCorp’s Terraform, which requires that developers learn a proprietary language.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2023
$41m
SERIES C
Oct 2020
$37.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $106.5m
Company benefits
- Time Off - Unlimited personal time off (PTO). We ask that employees take at least 3 weeks off during the year in addition to the 13 US holidays we recognize
- Parental Leave - 20 weeks paid parental leave for the birthing parent or primary caregiver, and 16 for non-birthing parent or secondary caregiver
- Remote-First - We are a 100% remote-first company with employees in nearly 20 states, and growing internationally; we encourage asynchronous communication and autonomy. We also provide an annual work from anywhere fund to help cover the employee costs of working remotely
- Professional Development & Growth - We encourage a lifelong learning mindset and every employee is given an annual professional development budget
- Equity - As a small but growing startup, we all act like owners and you will earn equity in the company
- Additional Funds - We offer employees a monthly wellness fund to be spent on anything physical and/or mental wellbeing related. We also provide a quarterly happiness fund to be used toward anything that makes our employees happy!
- Health - We offer competitive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance. It is free for our direct employees to be on our insurance
- 401K - With employer match
Company HQ
Pike Pine Retail Core, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Joe Duffy
(CEO)Worked as an independent consultant, then Senior Software Engineer at EMC. Subsequently spent over a decade in various senior roles at Microsoft, ultimately Partner Developer of Technical Strategy and Developer Tools.
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