Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to bring Pulumi’s cloud programming model to the world. You will be part of realizing a vision where every developer can harness the power of the cloud.
The Pulumi Cloud team is enabling Platform engineering productivity. Platform teams provide self-service capabilities with automated infrastructure operations to accelerate application delivery and improve developer experience. Here is just a taste of what the IaC Cloud team is working on:
- Pulumi Deployments and IaC management: to enable continuous delivery of secure infrastructure.
- Pulumi ESC to tackle configuration complexity and secrets sprawl.
- Pulumi IDP to support teams to create golden paths with reusable components and templates.
Most importantly, at Pulumi you will be challenged, learn, teach, and collaborate with a fun team of people building an amazing culture together.
Pulumi is built around a set of values that shape how we collaborate and build technology together:
- We succeed as a team and support each other through challenges.
- Inclusive environments help the best ideas rise to the top.
- Our customers guide the decisions we make.
- Openness and honesty help us move forward, even when conversations are difficult.
- We value thoughtful action and focus on delivering meaningful results.
- Curiosity keeps us learning and evolving with technology.
- We aim to think big and help define the future of cloud engineering.
While Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, WA., we are dedicated to being a remote-first company.
In This Role You Will:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams — including product managers and leadership — to shape long-term technical strategy and translate business requirements into customer-centric solutions.
- Contribute to roadmap planning and partner with the team to drive execution and delivery.
- Design and architect simple, cost-effective solutions to complex features with a focus on security, scalability, and performance—designed to work seamlessly across both our cloud and self-hosted environments.
- Write production-quality code across our full stack (Angular/TypeScript, Node.js, and Go for API development).
- Extend our SDK and providers to enable Pulumi Cloud functionality across multiple languages, including TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Python, C#, and Java.
- Participate in code and design reviews, sharing expertise and mentoring engineers across the team.
We’re Looking For Someone:
- 8+ years of experience as a highly productive software engineer.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, drive clarity, and make sound decisions with incomplete information.
- Expertise in modern cloud-based systems architecture and distributed systems.
- Strong analytical mindset with a systematic, first-principles approach to problem-solving and a keen eye for good design.
- A passion for writing to code and is a prolific contributor that also elevates the broader team.
- Passionate and curious about the evolving AI landscape and a drive to incorporate state-of-the-art LLMs to amplify team and product outcomes.
- Have experience leveraging modern AI tools and LLMs to build production-grade products and customer-facing experiences, using AI to accelerate development, improve product capabilities, and solve real-world problems with a strong focus on reliability, quality, and user value.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages such as Go, TypeScript, Python, Java, and C# .
- Experience with deployment orchestration and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
Compensation:
- Base Salary Hiring Range: $180,500 - $227,850
- All full-time employee offers at Pulumi include base salary, bonus or variable, equity and benefits (details below).
Benefits & Perks at Pulumi:
Healthcare Coverage:
We offer comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees. Internationally, we comply with local healthcare requirements and provide regionally appropriate coverage.
Time Off:
Our unlimited PTO policy encourages balance and rest — and we require employees to take at least three weeks off annually, plus 13 U.S. holidays.
401(k):
U.S. employees are eligible for a 401(k) plan with an employer match to support long-term financial wellness.
Parental Leave:
We provide 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents or primary caregivers, and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents or secondary caregivers.
Remote-First Culture:
Pulumi has been fully remote since 2020, with teammates across 20+ U.S. states and 12+ countries. We support flexible work with asynchronous collaboration and an annual “work from anywhere” stipend.
Professional Development:
Every employee receives an annual learning and development budget to support growth, learning, and career goals.
Equity Ownership:
We believe in acting like owners. All employees receive equity and are empowered to think big, move fast, and build the future of cloud together.
Additional Support:
We offer a monthly wellness fund to support mental and physical well-being, and a quarterly happiness fund for team connection.
About Pulumi:
Pulumi is reimagining how teams build cloud software, enabling developers and infrastructure experts to work better together through a unique combination of programming languages, tools, and systems innovation.
Our flagship infrastructure as code technology is open source and our SaaS product, Pulumi Cloud, provides platform teams, secrets management, and cloud management capabilities, and more. We have pioneered leveraging AI across all of these areas with our LLM-powered Pulumi Copilot to push the boundaries of what’s possible. At Pulumi, we dream big, in the pursuit of helping our customers out-innovate and win.
Founded in 2017 by industry veterans with over five decades of combined experience building developer platforms, Pulumi now has a global community of more than 350,000 members and serves over 3,250 customers. Despite our rapid growth, we’re still only getting started, and are early in our mission to democratize the cloud. If you thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance, we want to work with you to accelerate Pulumi’s impact.
At Pulumi, we don’t just accept difference, we celebrate, support, and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our customers. Pulumi is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
