We are looking for an Engineering Manager who is passionate about developer tools and loves applying modern AI/ML capabilities (LLMs, model fine-tuning, RAG, and more) to improve the developer experience.   You will lead the team building the future of the Pulumi Copilot and Pulumi AI products, integrating AI capabilities across the Pulumi Cloud.

Since AI is moving so fast, this individual must be able to balance keeping up with new advances in AI with the need to continuously ship new capabilities.

At Pulumi, you will be challenged, learn, teach, and collaborate with an elite team of great people.

As a manager, you have the potential to have an enormous impact on the team. We are seeking someone with a deep commitment to leading, mentoring, and growing their team, who inspires people to choose to work with them again and again.

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

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership and Development:

• Inspire the team to dream big and pursue creative solutions.
• Hire and retain top talent, fostering a culture of intellectual curiosity and lifelong learning.
• Mentor and coach engineers, helping them set and achieve their career goals.
• Foster a positive and inclusive team culture, encouraging collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Set high standards for team performance and continuously raise the bar.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations, provide constructive feedback, and manage underperformance with empathy and objectivity.
• Celebrate team successes and learn from failures together.
• Promote a culture of winning as a team, where everyone has a voice and seat at the table.
• Manage the engineering process, working with product, executives and engineers to set realistic deadlines, and keep the Service team on track to meet its deliverables.

Customer-Centric Approach:

• Advocate for customer needs and perspectives in all engineering efforts.
• Ensure that our products and services delight our customers and drive their success.

Technical Leadership:

• Guide design and architecture discussions, ensuring technical excellence.
• Collaborate with principal engineers and contribute to code when necessary.
• Ensure steady operations and drive a DevOps culture within the team.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience as an engineering manager or in a similar leadership role.
• 2+ years in AI/ML and surrounding technologies
• Strong technical background with the ability to guide design and architecture.
• Hands-on experience in coding and technical problem-solving.
• Comfort with building and iterating on both Open Source and Enterprise products.
• Comfort with all/some of the following: Amazon Web Services, MySQL, elasticsearch, AI/ML, building robust and resilient systems.
• Exceptional communication, both written and verbal.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Experience in a fast-paced, agile environment 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.