What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Manager, DevOps (Tapestry) position at X, The Moonshot Factory?
About Tapestry
Tapestry is Alphabet’s moonshot for the electric grid, working at the frontier where energy’s complexity meets AI’s potential. We were born at X, the innovation lab responsible for breakthrough technologies like Waymo, Verily and Google Brain.
To keep pace with humanity’s growing energy needs, the world needs a grid that is visible and understandable. We provide that clarity by building advanced, AI-enabled analytical and planning tools that allow the entire energy ecosystem to plan smarter, move faster, and operate more efficiently—ensuring electricity remains reliable and affordable for everyone.
This is a global effort. Tapestry is proud to support partners in the U.S., U.K., Chile, New Zealand, Australia and Brazil as they build a cleaner, more resilient energy future.
Joining Tapestry allows you to do the best work of your life as part of a multidisciplinary team of experts in AI, energy systems, software engineering and product design—all collaborating to reshape energy on a global scale. If you want to tackle problems that matter and build tools with real impact, we would love to meet you. Learn more about our team and our mission here.
About The Role
We are looking for a Foundational Architect and Leader to serve as the Engineering Manager for our Infrastructure and DevOps team. At Tapestry, we are building a high-performance substrate that allows our AI and Power Systems models to simulate the global energy grid.
You will lead a highly skilled and motivated team responsible for the reliability, scalability, and velocity of our entire moonshot. At this stage of our growth, developer productivity is our most critical lever, and we take it seriously, viewing it as a core competitive advantage rather than an afterthought. You will bridge the gap between startup speed and ‘Google-scale’ robustness by seeding a culture of ‘Design as Code’ and AI-augmented engineering. Your mission is to build the high-leverage tooling and agentic workflows that allow our engineers to move from complex architectural designs to mission-critical deployments with total confidence and zero friction.
How You Will Make 10X Impact
A culture that supports growth, ownership, and meaningful impact, along with:
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
Tapestry is Alphabet’s moonshot for the electric grid, working at the frontier where energy’s complexity meets AI’s potential. We were born at X, the innovation lab responsible for breakthrough technologies like Waymo, Verily and Google Brain.
To keep pace with humanity’s growing energy needs, the world needs a grid that is visible and understandable. We provide that clarity by building advanced, AI-enabled analytical and planning tools that allow the entire energy ecosystem to plan smarter, move faster, and operate more efficiently—ensuring electricity remains reliable and affordable for everyone.
This is a global effort. Tapestry is proud to support partners in the U.S., U.K., Chile, New Zealand, Australia and Brazil as they build a cleaner, more resilient energy future.
Joining Tapestry allows you to do the best work of your life as part of a multidisciplinary team of experts in AI, energy systems, software engineering and product design—all collaborating to reshape energy on a global scale. If you want to tackle problems that matter and build tools with real impact, we would love to meet you. Learn more about our team and our mission here.
About The Role
We are looking for a Foundational Architect and Leader to serve as the Engineering Manager for our Infrastructure and DevOps team. At Tapestry, we are building a high-performance substrate that allows our AI and Power Systems models to simulate the global energy grid.
You will lead a highly skilled and motivated team responsible for the reliability, scalability, and velocity of our entire moonshot. At this stage of our growth, developer productivity is our most critical lever, and we take it seriously, viewing it as a core competitive advantage rather than an afterthought. You will bridge the gap between startup speed and ‘Google-scale’ robustness by seeding a culture of ‘Design as Code’ and AI-augmented engineering. Your mission is to build the high-leverage tooling and agentic workflows that allow our engineers to move from complex architectural designs to mission-critical deployments with total confidence and zero friction.
How You Will Make 10X Impact
- Build the "Git" for the Grid: Design and operate a world-class cloud-native infrastructure that supports heavy-duty AI workloads, massive geospatial data processing, and physics-based simulations.
- Developer Empowerment: Architect self-service platforms and CI/CD primitives that allow our multidisciplinary teams (ML, Computation, Power Systems, Software) to move from idea to production deployment without friction.
- Production Hardening: Lead the SRE and DevOps strategy to ensure Tapestry’s tools are as reliable as the electric grid itself. You will own the "day-two" operations: monitoring, incident response, and security at scale.
- Operational Excellence: Fostering a culture of operational excellence and psychological safety.
- Technical Depth: 8 years of experience in Infrastructure, Site Reliability, or DevOps, with a deep understanding of Kubernetes, Cloud Architecture (GCP preferred), and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi).
- Leadership: 2 years of experience in a formal people management role, with a proven ability to mentor senior ICs and manage cross-functional stakeholders.
- Systems Thinking: A "Platform-as-a-Product" mindset – you build systems that empower other engineers to be self-sufficient.
- Operational Excellence: Experience managing high-availability production environments and a track record of leading through complex incidents and post-mortems.
- Security and Compliance: Familiarity with securing cloud environments and managing data privacy/governance at an enterprise level.
- Specialized Workloads: Experience managing infrastructure for ML-heavy organizations (GPU orchestration, high-performance computing).
- The "Zero-to-One" Spirit: Experience building out DevOps culture from scratch in a high-growth or R and D-heavy environment.
- Take charge: We take initiative and own outcomes that move the mission forward.
- Transform with purpose: We build solutions that solve real problems and create meaningful impact.
- Be a Tapestry, not a thread: We collaborate across diverse skills and perspectives to achieve more than we can individually.
- Always fine-tune: We stay curious, seek feedback, and refine our understanding as we learn.
- Stay grounded: We listen openly, value different perspectives, and stay focused on what matters most.
A culture that supports growth, ownership, and meaningful impact, along with:
- Competitive salary and equity
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous PTO and flexible hybrid work model
- 401(k) with employer contribution
- Professional development
- The ability to work on important real-world problems within an Alphabet-backed environment
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.