Job description
Engineering Manager – Languages and SDKs
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.
What You’ll Do
Lead and Develop Your Team
- 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
Shape Product and Technical Strategy
- 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
Drive Delivery and Quality
- 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
Champion Open Source Engagement
- 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
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- 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
Qualifications
- 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
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:
Health & Wellness:
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 or personal use.
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.
