Engineering Manager - Languages & SDKs

Summary

Join Pulumi's Languages & SDKs group as an Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of engineers, shape product and technical strategy, and drive delivery and quality. You will mentor and develop a distributed team, recruit top talent, and foster a collaborative culture. Responsibilities include defining and owning the team roadmap, translating customer feedback into technical priorities, and overseeing project planning. You will also champion open-source engagement, representing Pulumi within the community and with customers. Collaboration with other engineering teams and support teams is crucial. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience leading software engineering teams and a deep understanding of cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code.

Requirements

• 8+ years leading software engineering teams and mentoring senior-level talent
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping SDKs or language integrations
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code
• Strong problem-solving skills: first-principles thinking, graph algorithms, dependency resolution
• Excellent communicator able to engage engineers, product teams, and executives

Responsibilities

• Lead and Develop Your Team
• Mentor and grow a distributed team of talented engineers
• Facilitate technical career development, performance reviews, and hands-on coaching
• Recruit top talent and create an inclusive, collaborative culture
• Shape Product and Technical Strategy
• Define and own the team roadmap in partnership with Product and Leadership
• Translate customer and community feedback into technical priorities
• Balance innovation (new language support, distributed systems primitives) with quality, performance, and reliability
• Evaluate technical trade-offs: backwards compatibility, performance, test coverage, and API ergonomics
• Drive Delivery and Quality
• Oversee project planning: set clear milestones, manage cross-functional dependencies, and remove blockers
• Establish and reinforce best practices for design reviews, automated testing, performance benchmarking, and documentation
• Monitor team metrics (velocity, quality, support trends) and continuously iterate on process
• Champion Open Source Engagement
• Represent Pulumi within the open source community and with paying customers
• Triage issues and pull requests, ensuring timely responses and clear guidelines
• Champion an open, transparent release cadence and clear upgrade paths
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner with other engineering teams to surface SDK requirements and API coverage gaps
• Partner with Support and Customer Success on critical bug fixes and escalations

Preferred Qualifications

Open source contributor: triaged issues, reviewed PRs, and built community engagement

Benefits

• We offer comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees
• Internationally, we comply with local healthcare requirements and provide regionally appropriate coverage
• Our unlimited PTO policy encourages balance and rest — and we require employees to take at least three weeks off annually, plus 13 U.S. holidays
• U.S. employees are eligible for a 401(k) plan with an employer match to support long-term financial wellness
• We provide 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents or primary caregivers, and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents or secondary caregivers
• Pulumi has been fully remote since 2020, with teammates across 20+ U.S. states and 12+ countries
• We support flexible work with asynchronous collaboration and an annual “work from anywhere” stipend
• Every employee receives an annual learning and development budget to support growth, learning, and career goals
• All employees receive equity and are empowered to think big, move fast, and build the future of cloud together
• We offer a monthly wellness fund to support mental and physical well-being, and a quarterly happiness fund for team connection or personal use