About the position
This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of Pulumi. We are currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Languages and SDKs in the United States or Europe. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of cloud programming by developing open-source SDKs and tools that empower developers worldwide. You will contribute to a cutting-edge platform that bridges cloud infrastructure and developer experiences across multiple languages and environments. Collaborating with a globally distributed team and an active open-source community, you will lead projects from concept to completion, ensuring high performance, reliability, and usability. This position suits engineers passionate about innovative cloud technology, developer tools, and community engagement, eager to work in a remote-first, fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Pulumi SDKs across multiple programming languages with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Lead projects from prototyping through design, implementation, testing, and deployment, collaborating closely with engineers and customers.
- Determine roadmaps and feature scopes through ongoing interaction with the team and open source community.
- Provide thorough test coverage and clear documentation of design decisions.
- Engage actively with the Pulumi community to gather feedback, create sample content, and foster enthusiasm around the platform.
- Contribute to evolving the core cloud infrastructure deployment engine and distributed systems primitives.
Requirements
- Strong experience designing APIs, SDKs, or developer tools across multiple programming languages such as Go, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, Rust, Kotlin, Scala, Haskell, Ruby, F#, or Lisp.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Systematic problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and sound software architecture principles.
- Passion for community-building and empowering users and contributors.
- Solid understanding of compilers, graph algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
- Experience developing and running services on platforms like Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Familiarity with deployment orchestration and infrastructure-as-code tools.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary range: $166,250 - $206,150 USD.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance with no cost for U.S. employees; regional coverage internationally.
- Unlimited PTO with a minimum required of three weeks off annually, plus 13 U.S. holidays.
- 401(k) plan with employer match for U.S. employees.
- Generous parental leave policies.
- Fully remote, flexible work culture with asynchronous collaboration and annual 'work from anywhere' stipend.
- Annual professional development budget to support learning and career growth.
- Equity ownership and empowerment to innovate and lead in cloud software.
- Monthly wellness and quarterly happiness funds to support well-being and team connection.
