Senior/Principal Product Manager, Open Source

Pulumi; United States; Remote; USD 166,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

Time Off

401(k)

Parental Leave

Remote-First Culture

Professional Development

Equity Ownership

Wellness Funds

Job summary

Pulumi is hiring a deeply technical Product Manager to own the roadmap for Pulumi Core and the Providers ecosystem. This role blends CLI/UX craft, deep technical product thinking, and open source community leadership to shape cloud engineering for the next decade.

You’ll drive end-to-end product delivery, engage with a large developer community, and partner with the providers team to ensure broad, high-quality coverage across cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product management, engineering, or technical PM roles.
• Experience building developer tools or platforms (CLI, SDKs, APIs).
• Strong intuition for CLI and terminal UX with good error messaging.
• Open source experience and comfort operating in public.

Responsibilities

• Own roadmap for Pulumi Core and Providers ecosystem.
• Balance long-term architecture with community needs.
• Engage with the Pulumi community via GitHub, Slack, and calls.
• Build in public: RFCs, roadmap posts, and open source direction.
• Collaborate with Providers team on strategy and tooling.
• Translate enterprise needs into OSS product decisions.
• Define success metrics for OSS adoption and community health.
• Deliver end-to-end product lifecycle from idea to GA.

Skills

Product management

Developer tools

Open source

Cloud technologies

Cross-functional collaboration

CLI UX

Technical leadership

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

Crossplane

Job description

Who We Are

Pulumi is the cloud infrastructure platform engineers love and enterprises trust. We help teams build, secure, and operate modern cloud applications using real programming languages, backed by an open-source foundation and a powerful SaaS platform. Industry leaders like Snowflake, NVIDIA and Supabase rely on Pulumi to turn cloud infrastructure into a competitive advantage.

Pulumi enables developers and infrastructure engineers to unlock the full power of cloud services with secure, repeatable, production-grade infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Datadog, GitHub, and more. As an AI-first organization, we’re a leader in the AI Infrastructure space and have our own autonomous infrastructure engineering agent that brings AI-driven operations directly into the cloud engineering workflow.

While Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, WA., we are dedicated to being a remote first company. This role will be located remotely preferably in Seattle, WA.

About the Role

Pulumi Core and the Pulumi Providers ecosystem are the open source foundation that millions of developers rely on to manage cloud infrastructure. We’re looking for a deeply technical Product Manager to own the roadmap for both to shape what cloud engineering looks like for the next decade.

This role sits at the intersection of three things that are hard to do well together:

• CLI and developer UX craft — every keystroke matters when developers live in your tool all day.
• Deep technical product thinking — the engine, SDKs across multiple languages, and our extensive provider ecosystem are a serious technical surface.
• Open source community leadership — your roadmap lives in public, and your users are also your contributors.

If that combination sounds like the job you’ve been looking for, we want to talk to you.

In This Role You Will:

• Own the product roadmap for Pulumi Core (engine, CLI, SDKs) and the Providers ecosystem, partnering with engineering to balance long‑term architectural bets with near‑term community needs.
• Obsess over CLI and developer UX — the small frictions that compound over thousands of pulumi up runs, the error messages that make or break trust, the defaults that shape how people think about infrastructure. You’re ready to understand how agents use our product, and create agent‑ready interfaces.
• Engage directly with the Pulumi community — contributing to community‑sourced GitHub issues, joining community calls, participating in Slack discussions, and turning real user pain into roadmap priorities.
• Build in public: shape RFCs, write roadmap posts, and represent Pulumi’s open source direction to contributors, customers, and the broader cloud‑native ecosystem.
• Partner with the providers team on the strategy for our large provider ecosystem — what we build first‑party, where we invest in tooling for contributors, and how we keep coverage broad and quality high.
• Translate enterprise customer needs into open source product decisions without compromising what makes Pulumi loved by individual developers.
• Define success metrics that work for OSS (adoption, contribution velocity, issue resolution time, community health) alongside traditional product metrics, and feed insights directly back into roadmap decisions.
• Drive end‑to‑end product delivery from idea to GA and adoption by collaborating with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, Support, and the open‑source community.

We’re Looking For Someone With:

• 7+ years of experience in product management, engineering, or technical program management, with significant time spent on developer tools or infrastructure products.
• Experience building developer tools or platforms (CLI, SDKs, APIs, infrastructure products).
• Strong intuition for CLI and terminal UX — you have opinions about good error messages, sensible defaults, progressive disclosure, and when interactivity helps vs. gets in the way.
• Experience working with or shipping in open source — whether as a maintainer, contributor, or PM on an OSS product — and comfort operating in public. Your roadmaps, decisions, and tradeoffs will be visible to a large community, and you’re energized rather than drained by that.
• Hands‑on familiarity with modern cloud technologies (containers, Kubernetes, serverless, cloud APIs).
• Strong technical instincts with the ability to work closely with senior engineers and reason about architectural tradeoffs. Proven ability to ramp quickly in new technical domains and form strong product opinions.
• Demonstrated ability to ship high‑quality products in ambiguous or complex problem spaces.
• Experience working cross‑functionally with Sales, Marketing, and Support in a product‑led growth environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A commitment to building inclusive, collaborative teams.

Nice to Haves

• Background as a maintainer or significant contributor to a well‑known open source project.
• Background in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Familiarity with IaC tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane, CDK) and a point of view on what Pulumi does differently.
• Experience speaking at conferences or representing a product publicly to a technical audience.

Compensation

• Principal Level Base Salary Range: $180,500 to $227,850
• Senior Level Base Salary 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

• Healthcare Coverage:
  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.

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.