Remote Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Pulumi as an experienced software engineer to contribute to their open source platform and work at the intersection of cloud technologies and developer platforms. This remote role involves designing and building SDKs in multiple programming languages, leading projects from concept to completion, contributing to the Pulumi community, and more.

Requirements

• Experience in designing APIs, SDKs, developer tools
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience in multiple programming languages such as Go, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, Rust, Kotlin, Scala, Haskell, Ruby, F#, Lisp
• Systematic problem-solving approach, first principles and critical thinking skills, good design sensibilities
• Mindset of a community builder, focus on driving users and contributors to success
• Understanding of compilers, graph algorithms, data structures, and software architecture
• Experience building and running services in platforms such as Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
• Experience with deployment orchestration and infrastructure as code tools

Responsibilities

• Design and build open-source Pulumi SDKs in multiple programming languages
• Provide appropriate test coverage, clearly document design choices, ensure great performance, reliability, and maintainability of your code
• Lead projects from concept to completion: collaborate with fellow engineers and customers to prototype, design, engineer, and test new features
• Determine roadmaps and scope features based on your interaction with the team and the open source community
• Contribute to the Pulumi community: engage with users to gather feedback, produce new sample content, and increase excitement about what we’re building

Benefits

• Base Salary Hiring Range: $180,500 to $227,850
• All full time employee offers at Pulumi include base salary, bonus or variable, equity and 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)
• 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!