Job Description
At Pulumi, you will be challenged, learn, teach, and collaborate with an elite team of great people.
In order to succeed at Pulumi, you will need to resonate with the following values:
- We succeed and fail as a team
- An inclusive environment bubbles the best ideas to the top
- Our customers sit at the center of every decision
- We achieve the best results through openness and honesty, even when uncomfortable
- Work smart, but bias for action and results
- Our natural curiosity for technology keeps us always learning
- Think big, dream, and define the future of engineering in the cloud
While Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, WA., we are dedicated to being a remote-first company. This role will be located remotely in the United States.
About the Role:
Here at Pulumi, we dogfood our own developer tools.
You will work closely with our engineering teams to enhance our internal platform while providing user feedback on the end developer product, optimize our CI/CD workflows and development processes, and contribute to the broader Pulumi community.
We are looking for an experienced engineer with a background in DevOps to help evolve Pulumi’s cloud infrastructure and deployment automation. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining Pulumi’s internal and external cloud services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security across multiple cloud platforms.
This role is at the intersection of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes) and infrastructure automation, empowering developers and organizations to manage their cloud infrastructure with Pulumi.
In This Role, You Will:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using Pulumi and other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Automate deployment processes for cloud services, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery and improve developer productivity.
- Implement observability best practices, including logging, monitoring, and alerting for cloud services.
- Optimize cloud costs and performance, ensuring efficient use of AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes.
- Collaborate with engineers to improve infrastructure security, compliance, and operational resilience.
- Engage with the Pulumi open-source community, sharing best practices and contributing to enhancements in infrastructure automation.
We’re Looking For Someone With:
- Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Pulumi or Terraform
- Strong application development skills in languages like Go, or TypeScript.
- Expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
- Understanding of observability tools (Cloudwatch, Honeycomb, Sentry).
- Experience with security best practices, including identity management, encryption, and policy enforcement.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on operational excellence and reliability.
- Passion for developer experience, infrastructure automation, and improving cloud workflows.
- Leverages AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, automate operational workflows, and enhance infrastructure reliability.
Compensation:
- Base Salary Hiring Range: $166,000 - $209,000
- 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.
