Principal Engineering Lead - Pulumi Cloud

At Pulumi, we’re building the Cloud Engineering Platform enabling the future of developer-first infrastructure. We believe that programming the cloud should be just as productive, joyful, and flow-inducing as your local dev loop. We want to make janky internal developer portals and homegrown infrastructure DSLs a thing of the past. Every engineer deserves delightful tools. 

We employ a unique philosophy toward achieving this goal:

• 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.

Responsibilities:

We’re looking for a hands on engineering leader (50% IC, 50% people + project management) for Pulumi's Cloud SaaS offering. Thousands of companies rely on our Cloud Engineering Platform to be productive and ship software to their customers every day. We deliver features that enable enterprises to adopt Pulumi at scale and reimagine the way that developers interact with infrastructure. We believe that internal developer portals can be a joy to use. We ship applications, APIs, and services to make that a reality.

In This Job You Will:

• Architect, code, test, and own projects end to end as an IC
• Manage a small (2-4 ICs) team of engineers, managing the engineering process, working with product, executives, and engineers to set realistic deadlines, and keep the team on track to meet its deliverables.
• Hire, mentor, and develop an engineering team.
• Own the roadmap and prioritization of efforts across your team.
• Pitch in as an IC on a daily basis: writing code, reviewing code and design proposals, etc.
• Collaborate with product, sales, and customers to scope deliverables.
• Work cross-functionally with project stakeholders to turn engineering effort into customer value.
• Turn strategy and ideas into delivered results.
• Own accountability for communication and execution around product delivery goals across teams.
• Keep current on the latest software engineering methodologies, choosing what’s best to meet Pulumi’s product goals.

We’re Looking For Someone With:

• At least two years of engineering management or lead experience overseeing senior software engineering teams.
• A desire to be very hands-on, and comfortable in a deeply technical environment.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, developer tools, and SaaS products.
• Superior project management skills, with successful experiences delivering complex engineering projects on time and on budget.
• 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.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

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).