Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Pulumi's Cloud Insights team as a Senior Cloud Engineer and contribute to a vision where every developer can leverage the power of the cloud. You will work on building features that empower customers to gain visibility into their infrastructure, designing scalable solutions for analyzing large-scale infrastructure metadata, and developing backend systems and APIs. This role involves building UI components, optimizing data processing pipelines, collaborating on SDK improvements, and partnering with various teams to prioritize features. The position requires 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, proficiency in cloud-based systems architecture, and strong communication skills. Pulumi offers a remote-first work environment and a competitive compensation package including comprehensive benefits.

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

• 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