We are looking for an Engineering Manager who is passionate about developer tools and loves applying modern AI/ML capabilities (LLMs, model fine-tuning, RAG, and more) to improve the developer experience. You will lead the team building the future of the Pulumi Copilot and Pulumi AI products, integrating AI capabilities across the Pulumi Cloud.
Since AI is moving so fast, this individual must be able to balance keeping up with new advances in AI with the need to continuously ship new capabilities.
At Pulumi, you will be challenged, learn, teach, and collaborate with an elite team of great people.
As a manager, you have the potential to have an enormous impact on the team. We are seeking someone with a deep commitment to leading, mentoring, and growing their team, who inspires people to choose to work with them again and again.
While Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, WA., we are dedicated to being a remote-first company.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Leadership and Development:
- Inspire the team to dream big and pursue creative solutions.
- Hire and retain top talent, fostering a culture of intellectual curiosity and lifelong learning.
- Mentor and coach engineers, helping them set and achieve their career goals.
- Foster a positive and inclusive team culture, encouraging collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Set high standards for team performance and continuously raise the bar.
- Conduct regular performance evaluations, provide constructive feedback, and manage underperformance with empathy and objectivity.
- Celebrate team successes and learn from failures together.
- Promote a culture of winning as a team, where everyone has a voice and seat at the table.
- Manage the engineering process, working with product, executives and engineers to set realistic deadlines, and keep the Service team on track to meet its deliverables.
Customer-Centric Approach:
- Advocate for customer needs and perspectives in all engineering efforts.
- Ensure that our products and services delight our customers and drive their success.
Technical Leadership:
- Guide design and architecture discussions, ensuring technical excellence.
- Collaborate with principal engineers and contribute to code when necessary.
- Ensure steady operations and drive a DevOps culture within the team.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience as an engineering manager or in a similar leadership role.
- 2+ years in AI/ML and surrounding technologies
- Strong technical background with the ability to guide design and architecture.
- Hands-on experience in coding and technical problem-solving.
- Comfort with building and iterating on both Open Source and Enterprise products.
- Comfort with all/some of the following: Amazon Web Services, MySQL, elasticsearch, AI/ML, building robust and resilient systems.
- Exceptional communication, both written and verbal.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Experience in a fast-paced, agile environment is a plus.
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.
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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.
