Director of Platform Engineering
Director of Platform Engineering
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Tulip the leader in frontline operations is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with connected apps leading to higher quality work improved efficiency and endtoend traceability across operations. Companies of all sizes and across industries have implemented composable solutions with Tulips cloudnative nocode platform to solve some of the most pressing challenges in operations: errorproofing processes and boosting productivity capturing and analyzing realtime data and continuous improvement.
A spinoff out of MIT Tulip is headquartered in Somerville MA with offices in Germany and Hungary. Focused on composable humancentric solutions for industrial environments Tulip is disrupting the MES category and has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Innovator. Tulip has also been named one of Energages Top Workplaces USA and one of Built In Bostons Best Places to Work and Best Midsize Places to Work for 2024.
This role is located in Somerville MA We are a hybrid work environment and are in the office 3 days/per week.
About the role:
Your leadership will be the backbone for Tulips technical growth. Were looking for a technical peopleoriented Director of Platform Engineering to help lead our growing Platform team. Youll help our company reach the next level by directing the engineering managers and technical leaders on teams that focus on distributed computing and data storage and retrieval. In this role youll collaborate with the engineering and product teams at Tulip to help determine the roadmap scope work and ensure that everyone is working together effectively.
About you:
You possess high levels of technical acumen people management skills and a keen desire to deeply understand the business value of the product. You have honed your technical skills through years of building and delivering SaaS products. Youre passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them grow. You are a collaborative and motivated selfstarter and ready to lead from the front. You bring your authentic self to work.
You also love collaborating across the organization with infrastructure product design and customer teams on key projects. Youll work with your engineering leads to cultivate and grow our engineering culture.
What skills or experience do I need
- Expertise in contemporary tech stacks including React Redux NodeJS Golang Electron Rabbit Kafka MongoDB Postgres
- Experience building large SaaS products and complex distributed systems
- Led prior development efforts and oversaw the delivery of clean efficient code
- Proficiency in creating scalable systems that allow users to model store retrieve and analyze data
- Experience testing and deploying systems in multicloud/multitenant environments
- Experience with serviceoriented architectures microservices infrastructure as code CI/CD
- Crossfunctional team leadership with technical and customerfacing feature delivery
- Capable of hiring mentoring and creating career opportunities for your team
- Experience integrating software components and thirdparty technologies
Key Collaborators:
- Infrastructure/DevOps
- Product & Design
Working At Tulip
We know even great candidates experience imposter syndrome. Even if you dont match every requirement applying gives you the opportunity to be considered.
Were building a strong diverse team that values hard work families and personal wellbeing. Benefits of working with us include:
- Direct impact on product and culture
- Company equity
- Competitive benefits package including Health Dental Vision Shortterm Disability Longterm 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.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
