Engineering Manager - ESC

Pulumi is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our ESC (Environments, Secrets, and Configuration) team. This team focuses on delivering innovative, secure, and scalable solutions for secrets management, configuration, and security within Pulumi’s Cloud platform. This role blends technical leadership, customer empathy, and team development to drive Pulumi’s vision of simplifying the cloud for developers.

Your work will directly impact how organizations securely manage sensitive data, access credentials, and cryptographic keys at scale, safeguarding our users and partners. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will collaborate across engineering, product, and security teams to build cutting-edge solutions in cloud-native environments.

While Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, WA., we are dedicated to being a remote-first company.

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership and Development:

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing engineering team focused on secrets management, configuration, and security.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and innovative culture that prioritizes team ownership, customer focus, and growth.
• Provide career development opportunities and conduct regular performance reviews to support team member growth.

Product and Technical Strategy:

• Work closely with product management, design, and other engineering leaders to define and execute the ESC roadmap.
• Align the team’s efforts with Pulumi’s broader security and developer experience goals.
• Drive the development of secure, reliable, and user-friendly features that solve complex infrastructure and security challenges for developers.

Operational Excellence:

• Ensure the team delivers high-quality, well-tested, and scalable systems that integrate seamlessly with the Pulumi ecosystem.
• Advocate for customer-centric development by incorporating user feedback and telemetry into planning and decision-making.
• Lead by example in technical discussions, code reviews, and architectural design processes when needed.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience, with a proven track record of managing high-performing, inclusive teams.
• Strong technical background in security products, developer tooling, or cloud infrastructure, with a deep understanding of secrets management or encryption.
• Experience delivering customer-focused, secure software solutions at scale.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and clearly convey technical concepts and product vision.
• Familiarity with modern Infrastructure as Code practices and tools is a plus.

Compensation:

• Base Salary Hiring Range: $180,500 - $227,850
• 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.