Cloud Architect

Summary

Join Pulumi as a passionate Pulumi Cloud Architect and be a part of a team that empowers developers to program the cloud. As an early member of the Professional Services team, you will deliver high-quality, customized solutions to customers using Pulumi's technology. This customer-facing role involves collaborating with strategic customers to understand their infrastructure needs, design tailored solutions, and implement them effectively. You will act as a trusted advisor, leveraging Pulumi's IaC approach to help organizations streamline migration, automate provisioning, and enhance cloud security. This remote position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development within a supportive and collaborative team environment. The role requires significant experience in cloud infrastructure and software development, along with expertise in various cloud platforms and technologies.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• 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)
• We provide comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees, and comply with local health benefit requirements internationally
• We have an unlimited Personal Time Off (PTO) policy and require employees to take at least three weeks off annually, in addition to 13 U.S. holidays
• We offer a 401(k) with an employer match for U.S. employees to support long-term financial security
• We provide 20 weeks of paid leave for the birthing parent or primary caregiver and 16 for the non-birthing parent or secondary caregiver
• Our workforce is fully remote, spanning over 20 states and 12 countries. We encourage asynchronous collaboration and support remote work with an annual "work from anywhere" fund
• Each employee receives an annual development budget, reinforcing our commitment to continuous learning
• As a growing startup, all employees receive equity and are encouraged to be frugal, scrappy, and to act like owners
• We offer a monthly wellness fund for physical or mental well-being and a quarterly happiness fund for personal and team use