Principal Software Engineer, Pulumi
Artificial Intelligence
$180.5-227.8k
+ Bonus + Equity
Universal infrastructure as code
Be an early applicant
Universal infrastructure as code
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$180.5-227.8k
+ Bonus + Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratize the cloud for every engineer.
Role
Who you are
- This role is hands-on: we’re looking for a strong coder who can dive deep on implementation details, while also driving architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and helping set the AI strategy
- AI is evolving fast—we need someone who can keep pace with new developments and translate them into impactful product capabilities
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer platforms
- Proficient in one or more imperative languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C++, etc.)—you’re comfortable writing and reviewing production-quality code
- Demonstrated leadership experience—mentoring, guiding architecture, driving initiatives forward
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
Desirable
- 1+ years of experience in GenAI: working with LLMs, chat interfaces, agentic systems, RAG pipelines, or vector databases
- Experience building developer-focused products or internal developer platforms
- Contributions to open source projects, or public demos of AI/dev tooling work
- A passion for shipping iteratively in a fast-paced, evolving space
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer who is passionate about developer tools and excited to shape the future of AI-assisted infrastructure as code
- You’ll lead engineering efforts for Pulumi Copilot and Pulumi AI, integrating modern generative AI capabilities into the Pulumi Cloud to dramatically improve the developer experience
- Design, code, and lead development of AI-powered features across Pulumi Cloud and CLI
- Build agentic workflows and intelligent assistants that help users write infrastructure as code, troubleshoot issues, and manage resources more effectively
- Collaborate across teams to help them surface their features and data to Pulumi AI, and help bring AI into their roadmaps
- Lead architectural discussions and design/code reviews with actionable feedback
- Stay up to date on the latest in GenAI and apply it pragmatically to ship real value
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.
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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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