Pulumi
Senior Software Engineer - Insights
Job Summary
The role involves building features that give customers visibility into their cloud infrastructure, designing scalable solutions, developing backend systems in Go, and creating intuitive UI components. Candidates should have over three years of software engineering experience, proficiency in cloud-based and distributed systems, and strong communication skills. The focus is on infrastructure analysis, policy enforcement, and optimization across providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP. The company offers a remote-first environment with comprehensive health benefits, professional development, and equity opportunities.
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We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer who is excited to bring Pulumi’s cloud programming model to the world. You will be part of realizing a vision where every developer can harness the power of the cloud.
The Pulumi Cloud Insights team is enabling organizations to understand and optimize their infrastructure.
Pulumi Insights makes it easy to search, analyze, and act on your existing infrastructure across providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP. Insights builds an asset inventory and helps users derive value by surfacing opportunities for policy enforcement, cost savings, optimizations, and infrastructure intelligence. Here is a little of what the team is working on:
- Pulumi resource discovery to enable customers to scan and understand their cloud infrastructure and runtimes.
- Resource policy to ensure infrastructure adheres to best practices and organizational standards.
- Resource optimizations to identify opportunities for cost reduction, security improvements, and performance enhancements.
At Pulumi, you will be challenged, learn, teach, and collaborate with an elite team of great people.
In order to succeed at Pulumi, you will need to resonate with the following values:
- We succeed and fail as a team
- An inclusive environment bubbles the best ideas to the top
- Our customers sit at the center of every decision
- We achieve the best results through openness and honesty, even when uncomfortable
- Work smart, but bias for action and results
- Our natural curiosity for technology keeps us always learning
- Think big, dream, and define the future of engineering in the cloud
While Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, WA., we are dedicated to being a remote-first company. This role will be located remotely in the United States.
In This Role You Will:
- 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.
We’re Looking For Someone:
- 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.
Compensation:
- Base Salary Hiring Range: $166,000 - $209,000
- All full-time employee offers at Pulumi include base salary, bonus or variable, equity and benefits (details below).
Benefits & Perks at Pulumi:
Health & Wellness:
We offer comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees. Internationally, we comply with local healthcare requirements and provide regionally appropriate coverage.
Time Off:
Our unlimited PTO policy encourages balance and rest — and we require employees to take at least three weeks off annually, plus 13 U.S. holidays.
401(k):
U.S. employees are eligible for a 401(k) plan with an employer match to support long-term financial wellness.
Parental Leave:
We provide 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents or primary caregivers, and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents or secondary caregivers.
Remote-First Culture:
Pulumi has been fully remote since 2020, with teammates across 20+ U.S. states and 12+ countries. We support flexible work with asynchronous collaboration and an annual “work from anywhere” stipend.
Professional Development:
Every employee receives an annual learning and development budget to support growth, learning, and career goals.
Equity Ownership:
We believe in acting like owners. All employees receive equity and are empowered to think big, move fast, and build the future of cloud together.
Additional Support:
We offer a monthly wellness fund to support mental and physical well-being, and a quarterly happiness fund for team connection or personal use.
About Pulumi:
Pulumi is reimagining how teams build cloud software, enabling developers and infrastructure experts to work better together through a unique combination of programming languages, tools, and systems innovation.
Our flagship infrastructure as code technology is open source and our SaaS product, Pulumi Cloud, provides platform teams, secrets management, and cloud management capabilities, and more. We have pioneered leveraging AI across all of these areas with our LLM-powered Pulumi Copilot to push the boundaries of what's possible. At Pulumi, we dream big, in the pursuit of helping our customers out-innovate and win.
Founded in 2017 by industry veterans with over five decades of combined experience building developer platforms, Pulumi now has a global community of more than 350,000 members and serves over 3,250 customers. Despite our rapid growth, we're still only getting started, and are early in our mission to democratize the cloud. If you thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance, we want to work with you to accelerate Pulumi's impact.
At Pulumi, we don't just accept difference, we celebrate, support, and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our customers. Pulumi is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Pulumi
Pulumi is an infrastructure management platform to automate through infrastructure as code, secure with secrets management, and manage infrastructure with AI.
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