Engineering Manager - Languages & SDKs

Pulumi Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

A cloud technology company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team focusing on cloud programming models. The role involves mentoring engineers, defining technical strategy, and ensuring delivery quality. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience with SDKs, cloud platforms, and team leadership. This position offers a competitive salary range and excellent benefits, including unlimited PTO and a remote-first culture.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision insurance

Unlimited PTO policy

401(k) plan with employer match

Professional development budget

Equity ownership

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading software engineering teams and mentoring senior-level talent.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping SDKs or language integrations.
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and grow a distributed team of talented engineers.
• Define and own the team roadmap in partnership with Product and Leadership.
• Oversee project planning: set clear milestones, manage cross-functional dependencies.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Problem-solving

Cloud platforms

Job description

Engineering Manager – Languages and SDKs

We are looking for experienced engineering managers that are excited to bring Pulumi’s cloud programming model to the world. You will be a part of realizing a vision where every developer can harness the power of the cloud.

Pulumi makes cloud development accessible by letting teams write real code. Our Languages & SDKs group maintains the open-source libraries and core engine powering Pulumi in Go, Python, TypeScript, .NET, and more. We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to grow this team, align technical direction, and support our vibrant community.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and Develop Your Team
  • Mentor and grow a distributed team of talented engineers
  • Facilitate technical career development, performance reviews, and hands-on coaching
  • Recruit top talent and create an inclusive, collaborative culture
• Shape Product and Technical Strategy
  • Define and own the team roadmap in partnership with Product and Leadership
  • Translate customer and community feedback into technical priorities
  • Balance innovation (new language support, distributed systems primitives) with quality, performance, and reliability
  • Evaluate technical trade-offs: backwards compatibility, performance, test coverage, and API ergonomics
• Drive Delivery and Quality
  • Oversee project planning: set clear milestones, manage cross-functional dependencies, and remove blockers
  • Establish and reinforce best practices for design reviews, automated testing, performance benchmarking, and documentation
  • Monitor team metrics (velocity, quality, support trends) and continuously iterate on process
  • Represent Pulumi within the open source community and with paying customers
  • Triage issues and pull requests, ensuring timely responses and clear guidelines
  • Champion an open, transparent release cadence and clear upgrade paths
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with other engineering teams to surface SDK requirements and API coverage gaps
  • Partner with Support and Customer Success on critical bug fixes and escalations

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading software engineering teams and mentoring senior-level talent
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping SDKs or language integrations
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code
• Strong problem-solving skills: first-principles thinking, graph algorithms, dependency resolution
• Excellent communicator able to engage engineers, product teams, and executives
• Preferred: open source contributor: triaged issues, reviewed PRs, and built community engagement

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

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance; international coverage according to local requirements.
• Time Off: Unlimited PTO policy with at least three weeks off annually plus 13 U.S. holidays.
• 401(k): U.S. employees are eligible for a 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Parental Leave: 20 weeks for birthing/primary caregivers, 16 weeks for non-birthing/secondary caregivers.
• Remote-First Culture: Remote since 2020, across 20+ U.S. states and 12+ countries, with asynchronous collaboration and an annual work-from-anywhere stipend.
• Professional Development: Annual learning and development budget.
• Equity Ownership: All employees receive equity.
• Additional Support: Monthly wellness fund and 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. We are still growing rapidly and are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment to accelerate Pulumi's impact.

Equal Opportunity

At Pulumi, we celebrate, support, and thrive on diversity. Pulumi is 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.

We currently hire in locations where we have a legal entity or the ability to support employment. To help determine eligibility, please indicate your current U.S. state or country of residence if located outside the U.S. This information is used solely to assess employment eligibility and will remain confidential.