Senior Software Engineer - Docs Infrastructure
Job Description
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Docs Infrastructure Engineer who is excited to deliver a world-class documentation experience to Pulumi’s global community of cloud engineers.
In this role, you will work on the team that owns and improves the infrastructure behind Pulumi’s documentation website (pulumi.com/docs) —the frontpage to our product that serves as a critical resource for our users. For Pulumi, since our audience is developers, our documentation is our marketing and improvements have a significant impact on our business.
You will work on Pulumi’s Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Cloud team, on the team that owns documentation (github.com/pulumi/docs) and examples (github.com/pulumi/examples), as well as integrating with our Registry and Pulumi Cloud IaC projects.
In This Role, You Will
- Improve documentation tooling and workflows: Innovate on local development setups, Markdown/MDX rendering, and search functionality.
- Own, maintain and enhance Pulumi's documentation and example code infrastructure.
- Optimize multi-language documentation generation processes.
- Manage build systems, templates, and assets: Upgrade and configure tools to optimize site performance and page load times
- Own the docs CI/CD pipeline: Oversee automated build, test, and deployment processes for documentation for the growing codebase.
- Enhance our search indexing of documentation and registry to improve documentation discoverability
- Ensure documentation changes go live smoothly using Pulumi’s infrastructure-as-code deployments.
- Implement automated previews, link checkers, and end-to-end tests (e.g., via Cypress).
We’re Looking For Someone With
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong background in software, DevOps, or platform engineering.
- Experience in internal tooling or build/release engineering for documentation sites or similar
- Hands-on experience with static site generators (Hugo or familiarity with similar tools)
- Experience with Typescript and Node.js
Compensation:
Base Salary Hiring Range: $166,000 - $209,000
All full time employee offers at Pulumi include base salary, bonus or variable, equity and benefits (details below).
Pulumi Benefits:
- Health: We provide comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees, and comply with local health benefit requirements internationally.
- Time Off: We have an unlimited Personal Time Off (PTO) policy and require employees to take at least three weeks off annually, in addition to 13 U.S. holidays.
- 401K: We offer a 401(k) with an employer match for U.S. employees to support long-term financial security.
- Parental Leave: We provide 20 weeks of paid leave for the birthing parent or primary caregiver and 16 for the non-birthing parent or secondary caregiver.
- Remote-First: Our workforce is fully remote, spanning over 20 states and 12 countries. We encourage asynchronous collaboration and support remote work with an annual "work from anywhere" fund.
- Professional Development: Each employee receives an annual development budget, reinforcing our commitment to continuous learning.
- Equity: As a growing startup, all employees receive equity and are encouraged to be frugal, scrappy, and to act like owners.
- Additional Funds: We offer a monthly wellness fund for physical or mental well-being and a quarterly happiness fund for personal and team use.
About Pulumi:
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.
