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 and access credentials. This hands-on leadership position involves collaboration across engineering, product, and security teams. Pulumi is a remote-first company, headquartered in Seattle, WA. The role offers a competitive salary and comprehensive 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

• 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