This role is located in Budapest, Hungary — We are a hybrid work environment and are in the office 3+ days/per week.

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, and Israel. 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."

About You

• You've built production data models and know how to turn vague business questions into clear, canonical definitions
• You use AI tooling as your primary mode of engineering and have developed a real point of view on how to deliver high-quality datasets when the technical work is done by AI
• You're comfortable engaging with stakeholders to untangle what they actually need and turning that conversation into a structured analytical approach
• You're looking for a role where agentic tools are the default, and where you can help shape how a central data team delivers the reliable signals that operational and strategic decisions depend on.

What Skills Do I Need?

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, technical, or business field, or equivalent working experience.
• 4+ years of experience in analytics, data science, or data engineering, with increasing scope and ownership.
• Proficiency with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) as your primary mode of building, testing, and documenting production data models, including shipping reusable assets that improve agentic workflows.
• Experience translating business requirements into structured analytical approaches, running workshops, and aligning stakeholders on canonical metric definitions.
• Strong data modeling skills and the ability to write performant SQL against cloud warehouses, with a strong emphasis on data quality and automated testing.
• SQL and Python proficiency for data modeling, pipeline orchestration, and API integrations using the broader data stack (dbt, Airflow, dlt, etc.).

Nice to Haves

• Experience with semantic modeling tools such as MetricFlow, Cube, or LookML
• Experience with data cataloging and metadata platforms such as DataHub or Atlan
• Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau, Looker, or Sigma

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data models and pipelines primarily using AI coding tools, with consistent best-practice patterns, clear documentation, and high-quality standards
• Build and improve agentic coding workflows to accelerate data modeling and testing, while staying in the loop on business logic, review, and company-specific edge cases
• Partner with stakeholders to surface conflicting metric definitions, run alignment workshops, and establish canonical standards across domains
• Define and enforce data quality standards across pipelines — including unit tests grounded in sample data and lineage-aware test placement — and enable domain analysts to follow the same standards
• Prototype and iterate on a semantic and context layer that makes Tulip's data accessible to both analysts and AI agents, including the documentation and instructions that let an LLM behave correctly against it
• Help the team make sensible calls about where on the risk curve to deploy AI: lower-risk for internal modeling and testing, more cautious for self-serve BI, and most cautious for anything customer-facing

Key Collaborators

• Commercial Teams
• Marketing Teams
• Product and Engineering Teams
• Operational Leadership
• Data Analytics stakeholders across departments

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
• Private Healthcare insurance
• Company equity
• Virtual company events and happy hours
• Flexible work schedule and unlimited vacation policy
• Team Lunches in KFT Hub and office snacks
• Learning & Development benefits
• HU Eyeglass Benefit
• An inclusive, dog-friendly office with diverse and inspiring colleagues

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.

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Diligent:
You build things that scale - and you don’t stop at “it works.” 
You design clean, reliable backend systems, shape architecture decisions, and turn data into something powerful using AI/ML.
If you’re a Python-focused engineer who’s comfortable with cloud-native development, data pipelines, and solving real - world performance challenges, this is your space. You’ll be hands - on with modern tech (AWS, SQL/NoSQL, IaC), working in Agile teams where your ideas influence both the codebase and the product. If terms like scalability, distributed systems, APIs, data processing, and machine learning actually mean something in your day-to-day - you’ll feel at home here.

Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):

• Design, implement, review, and test features in an Agile environment
• Contribute to system architecture and shape the future-state design of the platform
• Build and optimize scalable data processing solutions
• Develop and integrate AI/ML capabilities into data workflows
• Prototype and validate backend approaches when needed
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to refine requirements and user stories
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of solutions
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth delivery to production
• Follow and promote best practices in code quality and testing

These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview:

• 5+ years’ experience in a hands-on development role at a commercial software company
• Strong experience with Python and common libs
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch
• Solid experience with cloud native development (preferably AWS)
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or AWS CDK (TypeScript)
• Problem-solver attitude - Technology agnostic approach
• Good written and oral communications
• Solid troubleshooting ability and skills
• Ability to contribute to the effectiveness of a high-performing agile team, and to the product innovation.
• Successfully manage own workload, and take personal responsibility and ownership for delivery, behaviors, and self-improvement
• Keen to improve processes and share knowledge across the team.

It would be great if you had these to, but we’ll support you if you don’t:

• Experience with system design and scalable distributed systems
• Proven experience building and maintaining data pipelines
• Experience with Apache Spark and/or Apache Airflow
• Familiarity with AI/ML models and their integration into data pipelines
• Understanding of cost-efficient data and AI processing
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployments (e.g., Docker, GitHub Actions)
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD)

The Wow

This role will contribute in designing and developing our platform to fulfil the business needs and to also improve our systems. Within this capacity you will have the chance to design new data pipelines, maintain platforms hosted on data streams for batch and real-time loading and real-time visualisations.

A taster of what you will be involved with: 

• Maintaining and evolving our existing data platform;
• Building processes to ingest data from Kafka, APIs and Databases using AWS MSK Connect.
• Development and Maintenance of real-time data processing applications using frameworks like Spark Structured Streaming and Kafka Streams.
• Applying transformations to data streams;
• Being involved in data modelling following standards e.g. Inmon, Kimball, Data Vault;
• Ensuring data quality by verifying data consistency and accuracy;
• Keeping up to date on research and development of new technologies and techniques to enhance our data platform;
• Have an investigative mindset to be able to troubleshoot – thinking outside the box when it comes to troubleshooting problems and incident management;
• Full ownership on projects and tasks assigned together with being able to work within a Team;
• Able to document well processes and perform knowledge sharing sessions

What we are looking for:

Must haves: 

• Experience with modern cloud database technologies such as Snowflake;
• Experience with orchestrating data pipelines using Airflow;
• Experience with AWS Glue;
• Experience with Apache Iceberg;
• Experience with SQL, and Data Integration Tools
• Experience with any programming language like Python or Scala;
• Knowledge on AWS Services like S3/Lambda/API Gateways/DMS/RDS;
• Development experience in both Microsoft, and Linux/Cloud environments;
• Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Nice to have:

• Familiar with Data Warehousing concepts and data modelling techniques such as Inmon, Kimball, Data Vault;
• Familiar with AWS Services such as MSK and EMR;
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Time-series or Analytics Databases such as Elasticsearch;
• Familiar with data streaming using technologies such as Kafka;
• Familiar with software versioning tools like GIT;
• Familiar with infrastructure scripting like Terraform;
• Familiar with Data Monitoring and Visualisation tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, Cloudwatch;
• Scripting – Powershell, Unix Scripting;
• At least 2 years experience in Data Engineering;
• Excellent verbal and writing English communication skills;
• Good learning mindset;
• Able to set priorities and multitask

What we offer

• Fitness-wellness allowance  🧗‍♂️
• Company mobile phone for private use with 100 GB  📱
• Annual HUF devaluation compensation  💡
• Hybrid model: 3 days in the office 🏢  & 2 days from home  🏠
• Private Health Insurance  🩺
• Career development  📈
• Technical and soft-skill training opportunities 🎓
• Breakfast, fruits & lunch 🍎
• Team building events  🥳

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