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). 

Pulumi 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 13 US holidays we recognize.
• 401K (US Only) - With employer match
• 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! 

About Pulumi:

Pulumi is reimagining how developers and DevOps teams create and manage cloud software, through a unique combination of developer tools and system innovation. The company leads with an open source platform that embraces real programming languages, tools, and techniques, and offers an innovative SaaS product that helps teams collaborate.

Pulumi was founded in 2017 by developer and cloud experts from many corners of our industry to deliver innovative approaches to cloud software development. Since emerging from stealth in mid-2018, we are accelerating our platform momentum and product adoption. The team is built on a culture of openness, diversity, respect, and thinking big.

At Pulumi, we don't just accept difference, we look for it, celebrate it, support it, 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.