We are looking for a Principal Cloud Engineer 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.

The Cloud Engineering Platform (CEP) 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 CEP team is working on: 

• Pulumi ESC to tack configuration complexity and secrets spawl.
• Pulumi Deployments to enable continuous delivery of infrastructure.
• Pulumi Insights to easily search and understand your existing infrastructure.

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 have a 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.

In This Role You Will:

• Work with the team, PMs, and leadership to help define our long-term strategy and clarify requirements, while thinking about the customer.
• Create a roadmap and enable the team to achieve it.
• Design/Architect simple, cost-effective solutions to complex features. aiming for security, scalability, and performance. Our features must work both in our cloud and in a self-hosted environment.
• Code across our full stack (Angular/Typescript, Nodejs, Golang for API development).
• Enable our SDK and providers to enable Pulumi Cloud functionality in multiple languages (currently Typescript/Javascript, Golang, Python, C#, and Java).
• Participate in code reviews and mentor other developers.

We’re Looking For Someone With:

• Tackles ambiguity and drives clarity
• Expert at modern cloud-based systems architecture and distributed systems.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, first principles, critical thinking skills, good design sensibilities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Still loves to code and is a prolific contributor while still multiplying the efforts of the team.
• Experience in multiple programming languages such as Go, TypeScript, Python, Java, and C# (nice to have).
• Experience with deployment orchestration and infrastructure as code tools (nice to have).

Compensation:

• Base Salary Hiring Range: $180,500 to $227,850
• All full time employee offers at Pulumi include base salary, bonus or variable, equity and benefits (details below).