Pulumi Corporation is hiring a
Solutions Architect

Summary

The job is for a Solutions Architect based remotely in New York, New Jersey, or Boston. The role involves partnering with the Sales team, engaging with advanced cloud engineering teams, providing technical guidance, and acting as a customer advocate. The ideal candidate has experience in software development, proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code tools, and at least 5 years of experience in a technical customer-facing role.

Requirements

• Deep familiarity with core cloud-based infrastructure, application modernization, Open Source technologies, and public and private cloud platforms
• Demonstrated experience in software development and related best practices
• Proficiency in at least one Infrastructure-as-Code tool (eg. Pulumi, Terraform, AWS CDK)
• Knowledge and experience with one or more of the following languages; Go, Python, TypeScript, C# or Java
• 5+ years of experience in a technical customer-facing role such as solution engineering, consulting or technical support role. Demonstrated experience in organizing and managing customer engagements, expectations and outcomes both proactively and reactively
• Experience building positive professional relationships with developers and executives
• Impeccable written, verbal, and in-person communication skills
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, charting a course, and driving to execute

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Sales team to articulate the value, visions, and strategy of Pulumi to our customers
• Own the technical pre-sales engagement including, technical discovery, demos, proof-of-concepts and ensuring the technical win
• Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skills and credibility
• Act as a trusted advisor to some of the most sophisticated cloud and platform engineering teams in the world
• Deliver product and technical presentations to potential clients at customer meetings and Pulumi events
• Be a customer advocate, closing the loop between customers, product teams and engineering, championing the product to the customer and bringing their requirements to the roadmap

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 two annual company-wide wellness weeks and 13 US holidays
• 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!