Senior/Principal Product Manager, Open Source

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-term community needs.

Obsess over CLI and developer UX — the small frictions that compound over thousands of pulumi up runs, the error messages that make or break trust, the defaults that shape how people think about infrastructure. You’re ready to understand how agents use our product, and create agent-ready interfaces.

Engage directly with the Pulumi community — contributing to community-sourced GitHub issues, joining community calls, participating in Slack discussions, and turning real user pain into roadmap priorities.

Build in public: shape RFCs, write roadmap posts, and represent Pulumi's open source direction to contributors, customers, and the broader cloud-native ecosystem.

Partner with the providers team on the strategy for our large provider ecosystem — what we build first-party, where we invest in tooling for contributors, and how we keep coverage broad and quality high.

Translate enterprise customer needs into open source product decisions without compromising what makes Pulumi loved by individual developers.

Define success metrics that work for OSS (adoption, contribution velocity, issue resolution time, community health) alongside traditional product metrics, and feed insights directly back into roadmap decisions.

Drive end-to-end product delivery from idea to GA and adoption by collaborating with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, Support, and the open-source community.

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. Your roadmaps, decisions, and tradeoffs will be visible to a large community, and you're energized rather than drained by that.

Hands-on familiarity with modern cloud technologies (containers, Kubernetes, serverless, cloud APIs).

Strong 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 strong 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.

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.

Pulumi is reimagining how teams build cloud software, enabling developers and infrastructure experts to work better together through a unique combination of programming languages, tools, and systems innovation.

Our flagship infrastructure as code technology is open source and our SaaS product, Pulumi Cloud, provides platform teams, secrets management, and cloud management capabilities, and more. We have pioneered leveraging AI across all of these areas with our LLM-powered Pulumi Copilot to push the boundaries of what's possible. At Pulumi, we dream big, in the pursuit of helping our customers out-innovate and win.

Founded in 2017 by industry veterans with over five decades of combined experience building developer platforms, Pulumi now has a global community of more than 350,000 members and serves over 3,250 customers. Despite our rapid growth, we're still only getting started, and are early in our mission to democratize the cloud. If you thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance, we want to work with you to accelerate Pulumi's impact.

At Pulumi, we don't just accept difference, we celebrate, support, 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.