We are looking for a passionate Pulumi Cloud Architect to bring Pulumi’s cloud programming model to the world. You will be a part of realizing a vision where every developer can program the cloud.
As an early member of our Professional Services team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, customized solutions to our customers, leveraging the power of Pulumi alongside various cloud providers. Your primary responsibility will be to collaborate closely with a strategic customer to understand their infrastructure needs, design tailored solutions, and implement them effectively using Pulumi's cutting-edge technology. This is a customer-facing engineering role, where your contributions to customer engagements will quickly establish and underpin reference architectures and cloud best practices. By leveraging Pulumi's infrastructure as code (IaC) approach, organizations can streamline the migration process, automate infrastructure provisioning, elevate security and achieve greater agility and scalability in the cloud. You will help transform organizations with modern applications, data and AI powered capabilities. Our Professional Services team is focused on helping our customers rapidly execute and optimize their usage of Pulumi across all of their cloud projects and teams.
Expect to be challenged, learn, teach, and collaborate with a world class team of great people.
Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, WA. This role is 100% remote within the U.S. We are committed to our remote workforce and building a cohesive team.
In This Job You Will:
- Demonstrate curiosity, creativity, acumen and technical excellence as the lead Pulumi technical resource in complex cloud engineering projects with one of Pulumi’s largest and most strategic customers.
- Engage with a strategic customer to understand their infrastructure requirements and business objectives.
- Design, architect, and implement Pulumi-based solutions that meet customers’ specific needs and industry best practices.
- Learn and be responsible for deliverables and reference architectures spanning programming languages, infrastructure providers, and open source and commercial cloud services.
- Act as a trusted advisor and an extension of some of the most sophisticated cloud and platform engineering teams in the world.
- Be a Subject Matter Expert in a specific domain related to DevSecOps, cloud providers, development best practices and/or solutions architecture.
- Provide timely, responsive and collaborative engagement with your assigned accounts; coordinating with distributed teams to accomplish asynchronous objectives and tasks.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to Pulumi implementations, AWS, Azure, or GCP services, and Kubernetes.
To Be Successful In This Role, You Have:
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in software development for cloud infrastructure or related functions involving scoping, prioritizing and managing cloud architecture and engineering deliverables.
- Strong proficiency software engineering fundamentals including clean and concise code, writing documentation, refactoring, test driven development. We deliver projects working in Python, TypeScript, Go, C#, and Java, so you should be comfortable with at least two of these and willing to learn others.
- Deep familiarity with core web infrastructure, application modernization and software development best practices, Open Source technologies, cloud security, public and private cloud platforms.
- Experience deploying and managing cloud infrastructure with Pulumi, Terraform, Cloudformation and/or similar technologies.
- Strong proficiency in Azure, AWS or GCP services including compute, networking, storage, and security.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster deployment, configuration, and management.
- Experience with consulting and project delivery management .
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong team collaboration skills, problem solving skills, and critical thinking.
- Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time to meet with customers, attend events, or support key initiatives as needed.
Compensation:
- Base Salary Hiring Range: $155,000 - $195,000
- This role will include a 20% commission/variable along with base salary.
- All full time employee offers at Pulumi include base salary, bonus/variable/commission, 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.
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Pulumi’s cloud engineering platform brings infrastructure, developer, and security teams together through a unified software engineering process that tames cloud complexity and accelerates innovation. Using the Pulumi platform, teams can build, deploy, and manage modern cloud applications faster and with more confidence, using any language, any architecture and any cloud. Pulumi lets teams build Modern Infrastructure as Code using popular programming languages (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, .NET/C#). It enables deploying infrastructure and applications together through a unified delivery process. Finally, teams can manage cloud applications with Policy as Code, better visibility, and controls.
