Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Pulumi's Cloud Insights team as a Senior Cloud Engineer and help empower organizations to understand and optimize their infrastructure. You will design and implement scalable solutions, build backend systems and APIs, develop UI components, and optimize data processing pipelines. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and customers to prioritize features and drive technical excellence. This remote-first role requires 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, proficiency in cloud-based systems architecture, and strong communication skills. Pulumi offers competitive compensation, including a base salary range of $166,000 - $209,000, along with comprehensive benefits such as health insurance, unlimited PTO, 401k matching, parental leave, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 3+ years as a highly productive software engineer
• Passion to write code to solve customer problems
• Works to clarify ambiguity
• Proficient in modern cloud-based systems architecture and distributed systems
• Has strong communication skills, both written and verbal

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers and team members to build features that empower customers to gain visibility and insights into their infrastructure
• Design and implement scalable solutions that analyze large-scale infrastructure metadata across providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Build backend systems and APIs in Go that power Insights’ asset inventory and analysis capabilities
• Develop UI components, including canvas visualizations, to provide customers with intuitive, fast, and actionable interfaces
• Optimize data processing pipelines to efficiently aggregate, filter, and surface insights from scanned infrastructure resources
• Collaborate to improve and extend Pulumi's SDKs and multi-language capabilities for Insights-related functionality
• Partner with product, engineering, and customers to prioritize features like policy enforcement, cost analysis, and performance insights
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and architecture decisions to drive technical excellence

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!