Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Pulumi as a Senior Docs Infrastructure Engineer and contribute to a world-class documentation experience for our global community of cloud engineers. You will be part of the team responsible for the infrastructure behind Pulumi’s documentation website (pulumi.com/docs). This role involves improving documentation tooling and workflows, owning and maintaining the documentation and example code infrastructure, optimizing multi-language documentation generation, and managing build systems and assets. You will also oversee the CI/CD pipeline, enhance search indexing, and ensure smooth deployment of documentation changes. Your work will significantly impact our business, as our documentation serves as a critical resource for developers. This is a remote-first position with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong background in software, DevOps, or platform engineering
• Experience in internal tooling or build/release engineering for documentation sites or similar
• Hands-on experience with static site generators (Hugo or familiarity with similar tools)
• Experience with Typescript and Node.js

Responsibilities

• Improve documentation tooling and workflows: Innovate on local development setups, Markdown/MDX rendering, and search functionality
• Own, maintain and enhance Pulumi's documentation and example code infrastructure
• Optimize multi-language documentation generation processes
• Manage build systems, templates, and assets: Upgrade and configure tools to optimize site performance and page load times
• Own the docs CI/CD pipeline: Oversee automated build, test, and deployment processes for documentation for the growing codebase
• Enhance our search indexing of documentation and registry to improve documentation discoverability
• Ensure documentation changes go live smoothly using Pulumi’s infrastructure-as-code deployments
• Implement automated previews, link checkers, and end-to-end tests (e.g., via Cypress)

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