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$166,000 - $209,000
40 people in tech 
7 women in tech 
12 people of color in tech 
3 LGBTQIA+ folks in tech "Infrastructure as Code in any programming language." Build and ship infrastructure faster using languages you know and love. Use Pulumi’s open source SDK to provision infrastructure on any cloud, and securely and collaboratively build and manage infrastructure using Pulumi Cloud.
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to bring Pulumi’s cloud programming model to the world. You will be part of realizing a vision where every developer can harness the power of the cloud.
The Pulumi Cloud 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 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 and product managers to clarify requirements.
- Design simple, cost-effective solutions for 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 design reviews.
We’re Looking For Someone:
- 3+ years as a highly productive software engineer.
- Passion to write code to solve customer problems.
- Works to clarify ambiguity.
- Proficient in modern cloud-based systems architecture and distributed systems.
- Has strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
Compensation:
- Base Salary Hiring Range: $166,000 – $209,000
- All full-time employee offers at Pulumi include base salary, bonus or variable, equity and benefits (details below).
Pulumi Benefits:
- Health (US Only) – We offer competitive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance. It is free for our direct employees to be on our insurance.
- Time Off – Unlimited personal time off (PTO). We ask that employees take at least 3 weeks off during the year in addition to the 13 US holidays we recognize.
- 401K (US Only) – With employer match
- Parental Leave – 20 weeks paid parental leave for the birthing parent or primary caregiver, and 16 for non-birthing parent or secondary caregiver.
- Remote-First – We are a 100% remote-first company with employees in nearly 20 states, and growing internationally; we encourage asynchronous communication and autonomy. We also provide an annual work from anywhere fund to help cover the employee costs of working remotely.
- Professional Development & Growth – We encourage a lifelong learning mindset and every employee is given an annual professional development budget.
- Equity – As a small but growing startup, we all act like owners and you will earn equity in the company.
- Additional Funds – We offer employees a monthly wellness fund to be spent on anything physical and/or mental wellbeing related. We also provide a quarterly happiness fund to be used toward anything that makes our employees happy!
About Pulumi:
Pulumi is reimagining how developers and DevOps teams create and manage cloud software, through a unique combination of developer tools and system innovation. The company leads with an open source platform that embraces real programming languages, tools, and techniques, and offers an innovative SaaS product that helps teams collaborate.
Pulumi was founded in 2017 by developer and cloud experts from many corners of our industry to deliver innovative approaches to cloud software development. Since emerging from stealth in mid-2018, we are accelerating our platform momentum and product adoption. The team is built on a culture of openness, diversity, respect, and thinking big.
At Pulumi, we don’t just accept difference, we look for it, celebrate it, support it, 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.
INTERVIEW PROCESS
1st step: 30 minute phone call w/Recruiter
2nd step: 45 minute coding screen (20 minutes for the coding exercise) via Zoom Full Interview Loop: 2 coding interviews, 2 system design interviews via Zoom (also all 45 minutes long)
We don’t do the leetcode style coding questions. Candidates can answer in any language they prefer as well as any developer environment that makes them comfortable. There is also a take home option for one of the coding interviews if the candidate prefers.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
At Pulumi, we believe that being a global and inclusive team enables us to build the best products for our customers, and everybody has a seat at the table no matter their background, experiences, or title. We are always raising the bar and maintaining a high level of team performance in our drive to win as a team. We celebrate those wins together, learn from our failures together, and are on this journey as a team together. We recognize that not everyone has the same advantages or shared experiences, and so we work to amplify voices that struggle to be heard. We are dedicated to being introspective and intentional in our approach to building a more diverse team.