Pulumi
SaaS
Senior/PrincipalProductManager,OpenSource
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“Senior/Principal Product Manager, Open Source at Pulumi. Skills: Product Management, Developer Tools, Open Source, Cloud Infrastructure. Own product roadmap for Pulumi Core and Providers ecosystem. Partner with engineering on roadmap decisions”
What You'll Achieve.
Balance long-term architectural bets with near-term community needs; Turn real user pain into roadmap priorities; Keep coverage broad and quality high; Define success metrics that work for OSS (adoption, contribution velocity, issue resolution time, community health); Feed insights directly back into roadmap decisions
Industry & Context.
Reason about architectural tradeoffs; Ramp quickly in new technical domains; Form product opinions; Ship high-quality products in ambiguous or complex problem spaces
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years of experience in product management, engineering, or technical program management, Experience building developer tools or platforms (CLI, SDKs, APIs, infrastructure products), intuition for CLI and terminal UX, Experience working with or shipping in open source, Hands-on familiarity with modern cloud technologies (containers, Kubernetes, serverless, cloud APIs), 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 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 Have
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
What You'll Do.
Own product roadmap for Pulumi Core and Providers ecosystem
Partner with engineering on roadmap decisions
Obsess over CLI and developer UX
Understand how agents use product
Create agent-ready interfaces
Engage directly with Pulumi community
Build in public: shape RFCs
Represent Pulumi's open source direction
Partner with providers team on strategy
Translate enterprise customer needs
Define success metrics for OSS
Drive end-to-end product delivery
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partnering with engineering; Engage directly with the Pulumi community; Partner with the providers team; Translate enterprise customer needs into open source product decisions; Collaborating with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, Support; Building inclusive, collaborative teams
Communication Scope
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Process & Methodology
Drive end-to-end product delivery from idea to GA and adoption
Full 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-t
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