Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Pulumi's elite team as a Principal Software Engineer specializing in Security and Secrets Management to lead the evolution of our Environments, Secrets, and Configuration (ESC) platform. You will design scalable, secure, and user-friendly solutions that enable developers to manage sensitive data, credentials, and configurations across diverse environments.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in security, infrastructure, or distributed systems
• Proven experience building and maintaining security-focused software solutions, especially in secrets management, cryptography, or access control
• Deep understanding of modern security architectures, zero-trust models, and distributed systems security
• Expertise in programming languages such as Go, Python, or Rust
• Experience with cloud-native environments, containers, and orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker
• Strong understanding of multi-cloud architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure) and hybrid environments
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS) and secure coding standards
• Excellent leadership and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to mentor engineers and advocate for secure engineering principles

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the development of innovative secrets management solutions within the Pulumi ESC platform
• Develop secure, high-performance services that provide configuration, encryption, and access control across multi-cloud and on-prem environments
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to enforce the highest standards of secure development practices throughout the software lifecycle
• Lead design and implement fault-tolerant, scalable systems to manage secrets in highly distributed environments
• Conduct security assessments and threat modeling, and provide technical leadership on projects to continuously enhance the platform’s security posture
• Mentor engineering teams on best practices for secure code development and zero-trust architectures
• Stay at the cutting edge of security and secrets management trends, pushing Pulumi to deliver innovative, reliable, and user-friendly solutions
• Influence and drive cross-functional initiatives to shape the future of secrets orchestration and configuration management at Pulumi

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and multi-cloud infrastructure management
• Hands-on experience with specific security technologies such as PKI, OIDC, OAuth, etc
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools and secure key handling in complex environments
• Track record of contributing to or leading security initiatives in open-source projects
• Familiarity with secrets management solutions in cloud-native environments

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!