Senior/Principal Product Manager, Open Source

Pulumi
Seattle
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Product ManagementExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["CLI","SDKs","APIs","Containers","Kubernetes","Serverless","Cloud APIs","Open Source"]

Technical, open-source–oriented Product Manager to own the roadmap for Pulumi Core (engine, CLI, SDKs) and the Providers ecosystem. You’ll balance architectural bets with community needs, obsess over CLI UX, engage with an active open-source community, and drive end-to-end delivery in a product-led, cloud-native environment.

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Pulumi
3 months ago

Senior/Principal Product Manager, Open Source

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Job Summary

Technical, open-source–oriented Product Manager to own the roadmap for Pulumi Core (engine, CLI, SDKs) and the Providers ecosystem. You’ll balance architectural bets with community needs, obsess over CLI UX, engage with an active open-source community, and drive end-to-end delivery in a product-led, cloud-native environment.
Location: Seattle
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the product roadmap for Pulumi Core (engine, CLI, SDKs) and the Providers ecosystem, balancing long-term architectural bets with near-term community needs.
  • •Obsess over CLI and developer UX — minimize friction for thousands of pulumi up runs, craft helpful error messages, and design agent-ready interfaces.
  • •Engage with the Pulumi community — address GitHub issues, join community calls, and translate user pain into roadmap priorities.
  • •Build in public: shape RFCs, write roadmap posts, and represent Pulumi’s open source direction to contributors and customers.
  • •Partner with the providers team on strategy for the provider ecosystem, invest in tooling for contributors, and maintain broad coverage and quality.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceTime Off401kParential LeaveRemote-firstWellness StipendHappiness Fund

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of experience in product management, engineering, or technical program management, with significant time spent on developer tools or infrastructure products.
  • •Experience building developer tools or platforms (CLI, SDKs, APIs, infrastructure products).
  • •Strong intuition for CLI and terminal UX — you have opinions about good error messages, sensible defaults, progressive disclosure, and when interactivity helps vs. gets in the way.
  • •Experience working with or shipping in open source — whether as a maintainer, contributor, or PM on an OSS product — and comfort operating in public.
  • •Hands-on familiarity with modern cloud technologies (containers, Kubernetes, serverless, cloud APIs).
Experience:7+ yearsOpen sourceDeveloper toolsCloudInfrastructure
Skills:CLISDKsAPIsContainersKubernetesServerlessCloud APIsOpen Source
Languages:English
Tech Stack:CLISDKsAPIsContainersKubernetesServerlessCloud APIsOpen Source

Company Brief

Pulumi
Provides an infrastructure-as-code platform that enables teams to define, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure using general-purpose programming languages, integrating with major cloud providers for scalable, automated infrastructure management.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Seattle, United States
Founded: 2017
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