Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Pulumi as an Engineering Manager to lead the ESC (Environments, Secrets, and Configuration) team, focusing on delivering secure and scalable solutions for secrets management and configuration within Pulumi's Cloud platform. This role requires technical leadership, customer empathy, and team development to drive Pulumi's vision. You will directly impact how organizations securely manage sensitive data at scale. This hands-on leadership position involves collaboration across engineering, product, and security teams to build cutting-edge solutions in cloud-native environments. Pulumi is a remote-first company, headquartered in Seattle, WA. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience, with a proven track record of managing high-performing, inclusive teams
• Strong technical background in security products, developer tooling, or cloud infrastructure, with a deep understanding of secrets management or encryption
• Experience delivering customer-focused, secure software solutions at scale
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and clearly convey technical concepts and product vision

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing engineering team focused on secrets management, configuration, and security
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and innovative culture that prioritizes team ownership, customer focus, and growth
• Provide career development opportunities and conduct regular performance reviews to support team member growth
• Work closely with product management, design, and other engineering leaders to define and execute the ESC roadmap
• Align the team’s efforts with Pulumi’s broader security and developer experience goals
• Drive the development of secure, reliable, and user-friendly features that solve complex infrastructure and security challenges for developers
• Ensure the team delivers high-quality, well-tested, and scalable systems that integrate seamlessly with the Pulumi ecosystem
• Advocate for customer-centric development by incorporating user feedback and telemetry into planning and decision-making
• Lead by example in technical discussions, code reviews, and architectural design processes when needed

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with modern Infrastructure as Code practices and tools

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!