Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Japan - Remote

This role is located in Japan - We are a remote work environment for 2026 with future plans to open up an office in 2027.

Candidates must possess a valid Japanese work visa at the time of application. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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. Tulip's 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, Israel, and Japan. Tulip has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Innovator, a 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast award winner, one of Energage's Top Workplaces USA, and one of Built In Boston's "Best Places to Work" and "Best Midsize Places to Work."

The DevOps Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the reliability and performance of our services for our rapidly growing customer base, with a specific focus on supporting the digital transformation of manufacturing operations for our customers in Japan. This includes managing and evolving our entire cloud architecture to support a global workload (from the US to China, we host Tulip everywhere). The team is using modern tools, technologies and processes to automate the entire cloud software lifecycle. This means finding creative ways to use the fast changing cloud technology to ensure customers' stability and availability. Automating everything without the need of human-interaction is our credo.

About You

As a senior infrastructure engineer, you believe the best systems are self-running, thriving on automation that eliminates toil and architecture designed for global resilience. You bring a bias for action to the full cloud lifecycle and excel in collaborative startup cultures where internal motivation and a love for learning are the baseline. Whether working independently or as part of a team, you are dedicated to continuous improvement and solving the industry's toughest technical challenges.

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
• 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
• Exposure to modern programming or scripting languages used in infrastructure contexts (e.g., Go, TypeScript, Python, Bash)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Business level of English to communicate with internal team and handle English knowledge database
• Business level of Japanese to communicate with Japanese customers, internal team, and handle Japanese material

Key Responsibilities

• Own the deployment, health, and continuous improvement of Tulip's 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
• Own and continuously improve Tulip's 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 — if it can be automated, automate it
• Define and maintain observability standards across Tulip's 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
• Serve as a close partner to application engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle, providing infrastructure guidance and support
• Participate in the on-call rotation and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement through documentation, runbooks, and process iteration

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
• Hybrid Work Style
• Learning & Development benefit
• Comprehensive social insurance package (Health, Pension, Employment, and Workers' Compensation)
• Commutation Allowance

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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Please note that we may use AI-based tools to support parts of our hiring process. All data processing is carried out in compliance with local data protection laws, ensuring all personal candidate information is handled securely and ethically.