Senior Technical Content Engineer, Pulumi
$152-198k
Offers Bonus and Equity
Universal infrastructure as code
Open for applications
Universal infrastructure as code
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$152-198k
Offers Bonus and Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratize the cloud for every engineer.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years as a software or devops engineer, with minimum of 1 years documenting products for a developer audience
- Demonstrated experience in a variety of technical writing domains, including the creation of developer documentation, the structuring of content for enhanced readability and comprehension, the communication of complex technical concepts, and the application of narrative storytelling techniques
- A deep sense of empathy for developers, ranging from beginners to experts, and a thorough understanding of their documentation requirements and learning preferences. Your approach should accommodate the diverse needs of our developer community, making our platform accessible and appealing to all
- Excellent interpersonal, written, editorial and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience in one or more of the following technologies:
- Languages: Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or C#
- Cloud Platforms: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
What the job involves
- We are looking for a passionate Senior Technical Content Engineer to educate Pulumi’s rapidly growing community on infrastructure as code best practices and how best to maximize use of the Pulumi platform to achieve success in building modern cloud infrastructure
- You will be a part of realizing a vision where every engineer can program the cloud
- In this role, you will create high-quality and deeply technical developer documentation that empowers Pulumi’s users to code the cloud
- You’ll focus on enhancing customer productivity, reducing friction and improving the satisfaction within our open source and customer community
- You’ll work closely with our engineering team, product managers and community engineers to ensure our documentation, examples, tutorials, blogs are of the highest quality
- You will have the opportunity to shape our developer documentation strategy and directly impact the success of our docs platform
- At Pulumi you will be challenged, learn, teach, and collaborate with an elite team of great people
- Author, manage, and update a comprehensive set of documentation materials including but not limited to online guides, tutorials, how-tos, and reference docs
- Write blog posts or whitepapers that offer architectural guidance, analyze varying technological viewpoints, and illustrate patterns and concepts around infrastructure as code
- Create the technical curriculum and content (e.g., tutorials, workshops) to get customers from a 100 to 400 level
- Improve, and maintain consistency in Pulumi’s style guide across all facets of our developer documentation, covering guides, how-tos, reference materials, and code samples
- Conduct peer reviews for content submitted by other technical authors, offering constructive feedback to ensure the highest standard of quality and consistency is upheld across all documentation
- Engage with our community to provide help and ensure we are meeting the needs of our users and customers
- Define, document, and share infrastructure as code best practices and create open source, reusable Pulumi components which will be used by the platform engineering community
- This role spans our entire open source platform, across many clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes), supporting any number of industry standard languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, etc,), and scenarios (containers, serverless, and infrastructure)
- We can safely guarantee that you will always be learning something new!
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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