This role is located in Somerville, MA.
Tulip, the leader in AI-native frontline operations, is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with composable, connected apps, leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. Tulips cloud-native, no-code platform, powered by embedded AI, is driving the digital transformation of industrial environments through composable, human-centric solutions that go beyond disrupting the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) category.
A spinoff out of MIT, Tulip is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany, Hungary, Singapore, and Israel. Tulip has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Innovator, a 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast award winner, one of Energages Top Workplaces USA, and one of Built In Bostons Best Places to Work and Best Midsize Places to Work.
About You
Youre a senior infrastructure engineer who believes that the best system is one that runs itself. You thrive on building automation that eliminates toil, designing for resilience at global scale, and owning the full lifecycle of cloud infrastructure - from architecture to observability. You bring a bias for action and a continuous improvement mindset to everything you do: if something can be automated, youll automate it; if a system is fragile, youll make it robust. Youre equally comfortable diving deep into a production incident and partnering with developers to make their lives easier. In this role you will coach and mentor fellow DevOps Engineers on technical best practices, tooling, and operational patterns, helping raise the collective capabilities of the team.
What Skills Do I Need?
5-7+ years of hands-on DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production cloud environments at scale
Proficiency with modern cloud infrastructure tooling - experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, and major cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure) is highly relevant
Proven experience mentoring and coaching engineers - whether formally or informally - and a genuine interest in developing the people around you
Experience managing enterprise-grade data persistence layers, including NoSQL and SQL databases, key/value stores, and messaging systems (e.g., AMQP, MQTT)
Familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Mimir, Thanos, Grafana) and a strong understanding of what good SRE practice looks like in a fast-growing SaaS environment
Comfort driving team rituals - sprint planning, standups, retrospectives - and contributing to a high-performing team culture
Exposure to modern programming or scripting languages used in infrastructure contexts (e.g., Go, TypeScript, Python, Bash)
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Key Responsibilities
Own the deployment, health, and continuous improvement of Tulips multi-cloud, multi-region SaaS environments - including clusters spanning the US, Europe, and Asia
Design and evolve cloud architecture to ensure customer availability, stability, and performance as Tulip scales globally
Contribute to and help shape the infrastructure technical roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership
Own and continuously improve Tulips CI/CD infrastructure, driving toward a fully automated, human-interaction-free software delivery lifecycle
Build automation tooling and internal systems that reduce operational toil and increase developer velocity and bring the team along in building and owning them
Define and maintain observability standards across Tulips cloud environments, including metrics, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing
Proactively identify performance degradation and capacity risks before they impact customers; lead incident response and drive root cause analysis
Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, and regular technical guidance
Serve as a close partner to application engineering teams throughout the SDLC, providing infrastructure guidance and support
Participate in the on-call rotation and help establish on-call best practices that scale as the team grows
Key Collaborators
Application Engineering teams
Edge & Hardware teams
QA team
Product Management
Customer Support
Working At Tulip
We know even great candidates experience imposter syndrome. Even if you don't match every requirement, applying gives you the opportunity to be considered.
We're building a strong, diverse team that values hard work, families, and personal well-being. Benefits of working with us include:
Direct impact on product and culture
Company equity
Competitive benefits package including Health, Dental, Vision, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Life Insurance, AD&D Insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Commuter Benefits, Parental Leave, and 401(K)
Flexible work schedule and unlimited vacation policy
Virtual company events and happy hours
Fitness subsidies
We are an equal opportunity employer. At Tulip, we celebrate all. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Help us build an inclusive community that will transform frontline operations.
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