Pulumi

Solutions Engineer

Pulumi
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5 months ago

Base Salary

$115k - $143k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Sales to articulate Pulumi’s value, vision, and strategy to customers.
  • Own technical pre-sales engagements, including technical discovery, demos, proof-of-concepts, and securing the technical win.
  • Technically close complex opportunities through competitive knowledge, technical skills, and credibility.
  • Advise cloud and platform engineering teams on architectural decisions and best practices.
  • Deliver product and technical presentations at customer meetings and Pulumi events.
  • Advocate for customers by connecting their requirements with Pulumi’s product and engineering roadmaps.
  • Teach customers and colleagues about Pulumi technologies and develop improved ways to support customers.

Requirements

  • At least five years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or Technical Consulting.
  • Proficiency with one or more modern programming languages, including Go, Python, TypeScript, C#, or Java.
  • Deep familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure, application modernization, open-source technologies, and public or private cloud platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Pulumi, Terraform, or AWS CDK.
  • Demonstrated software development experience and knowledge of related best practices.
  • Experience leading and managing technical customer engagements, including scoping, expectation setting, and successful delivery.
  • Experience applying solution-selling methodologies to the technical sales cycle.
  • Ability to build relationships with developers, architects, business leaders, and other technical stakeholders.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, take ownership, and drive outcomes.
  • Startup or fast-paced technology company experience is preferred.
  • Public cloud certifications such as AWS, Azure, or GCP are preferred.
  • Enterprise software sales experience is preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote-first role located remotely in the Bay Area, with flexible asynchronous collaboration.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees.
  • Unlimited PTO, required minimum three weeks off annually, and 13 U.S. holidays.
  • 401(k) with employer match for U.S. employees.
  • Paid parental leave of 20 weeks for birthing parents or primary caregivers and 16 weeks for non-birthing or secondary caregivers.
  • Annual work-from-anywhere stipend, professional development budget, monthly wellness fund, and quarterly happiness fund.
  • Equity ownership for all employees.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Pulumi

About Pulumi

51-200 employees

Our mission is to democratize the cloud for every engineer. Headquartered in Seattle with teams around the world, we build the open-source infrastructure as code platform used by thousands of organizations to build, deploy, manage, and govern cloud infrastructure with real programming languages.