Senior Software Engineering Manager, Platform

Tulip Interfaces•Somerville, MA

2d•$160,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Tulip is hiring a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead its Identity & Access work. The role owns the architecture and roadmap for authentication, provisioning, account structures, and authorization across Tulip’s multi-cloud infrastructure. The manager will lead a small, high-caliber team and help manufacturers securely govern access for employees and AI agents. The work supports security-critical operations where failures can affect production, materials, and compliance. The role is based in Somerville, Massachusetts, with a hybrid schedule requiring at least three days per week in the office. The successful candidate will stay close to technical work, build and operate identity and access systems, and maintain strong standards for code quality, testing, and operational reliability. They will represent Identity & Access in cross-functional architecture and roadmap decisions, make difficult IAM and access-policy tradeoffs, and drive practical adoption of AI tools in engineering workflows. The position offers a salary range of $160,000–$220,000 per year, with actual compensation based on factors including experience, skills, location, and internal equity.

Requirements

At least 7 years of software engineering experience, including direct involvement building and operating security-critical or identity/access systems in production.
At least 3 years of people-management experience leading a software team, including hiring, providing constructive feedback, and growing engineers.
Hands-on experience with OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, OIDC, and SCIM in enterprise environments, including understanding their specifications and failure modes.
Experience building multi-tenant systems where tenant isolation is a hard requirement.
Working knowledge of IAM, secrets management, and access policy across AWS and Azure, including tradeoffs for customers using both.
A track record of shipping clean, tested code and holding a team to the same standard.
Active use of AI tooling in personal engineering practice and a point of view on how it changes how teams build.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent working experience.

Responsibilities

Own the architecture and roadmap for identity and access, including SSO/SAML/OIDC federation, SCIM provisioning, multi-tenant account structures, and authorization across Tulip’s multi-cloud infrastructure.
Represent Identity & Access in cross-functional architecture reviews and roadmap decisions.
Lead and develop a small engineering team through regular 1:1s, quality standards, direct feedback, and engineer development.
Protect customer operations by delivering reliable systems for security-critical environments.
Drive team adoption of AI tooling for code review, test generation, specification drafting, and agent loops, and share effective practices across engineering.
Make IAM and access-policy tradeoffs while maintaining tenant isolation and enterprise compliance requirements.
Ship customer-facing work quickly and reliably, with operational excellence as the default.