AI-Powered Platform Engineering Manager

Requirements

• You possess high levels of technical acumen, people management skills, and a keen desire to deeply understand the business value of what you’re building
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• You’ve honed your technical skills through years of building and delivering SaaS products, and you’re now energized by the chance to build at the edge of what AI models can do
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• You’re passionate about mentoring engineers and helping them grow, and you bring strong opinions about agent architectures, context management, and building scalable systems
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• You’re a collaborative, motivated self-starter who leads from the front and brings your authentic self to work
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• Experience building and scaling large SaaS products and complex distributed systems
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• Expertise in contemporary tech stacks including React, Node.js, MongoDB, and Postgres, with experience deploying in multi-cloud and multi-tenant environments
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• People management experience leading engineering teams, with a track record of hiring, mentoring, and creating career opportunities
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• Hands-on experience architecting systems that integrate agentic and generative AI capabilities, including tool use, context management, sandboxed execution, and long-running workflows
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• Cross-functional leadership with product, design, and customer-facing teams to deliver features end-to-end
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• Strong product-engineering instincts: you can prototype quickly, prune scope, and decide what to ship versus what to throw away

What the job involves

• Your leadership will be the driving force behind Tulip’s next core product experience. In this role, you’ll lead the engineering team building Tulip’s new agent-native app-building product—a greenfield effort that will redefine how customers compose, deploy, and operate apps on our platform
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• You’ll work as the engineering leader alongside product and design, navigate technical tradeoffs around long-running agents, sandboxing, and code execution, and ship something publicly within the first few months
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• You’ll also help shape how this team operates as a reference point for AI-driven development across the broader engineering org
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• Own the technical architecture and delivery of Tulip’s new agent-native app-building product
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• Hire, mentor, and grow a senior team capable of operating with high autonomy and quality from day one
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• Establish engineering standards: testing, observability, AI-driven development practices for the team
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• Partner with Infrastructure and other Engineering teams to evolve Tulip’s API surface and runtime so agents have what they need without compromising the existing platform
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• Collaborate deeply with product and design as a product threaded team, with shared ownership of outcomes
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• Cultivate an AI-first development culture and continuously raise the bar on velocity and quality
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• Key Collaborators:
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• Product & Design
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• Engineering leadership peers
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• Infrastructure
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• QA
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• Tulip Customers and Customer-facing teams