Senior Manager, Scientific Data Engineering

TetraScience • Cambridge, MA

23h • $150,000 - $230,000

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Scientific Data Engineers (SDE) spread across multiple forward deployed engineering squads and drive both technical and organizational excellence. This role is ideal for a leader who can zoom out to see systemic inefficiencies across teams and processes, then roll up their sleeves to fix them — while also building a culture where engineers do their best work.

Requirements

• Overall 10+ years of work experience, including at least 5 years being a manager or leading through other managers.
• Proven track record of identifying and resolving operational inefficiencies at scale (process, tooling, or organizational).
• Demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence — quality, reliability, and maintainable systems, not just shipping speed.
• Experience managing managers and building organizational structure as teams grow.
• Strong technical background with the credibility to engage deeply on architecture and design decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to executive stakeholders.
• Experience setting and using engineering metrics to drive decisions and improvements.
• Comfortable working in a changing environment and navigating through unclear requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience scaling an engineering org through significant growth (e.g., 2x–5x headcount).
• Experience working in startups.
• Experience in working with life science data.
• Experience with distributed/remote engineering teams.
• History of building or maturing engineering processes from scratch (SDLC, release management, incident response).

Responsibilities

• Supervise and guide SDEs in each squad in planning, implementation, testing, and documentation.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.
• Lead by example - comfortable with diving deeper into organizational and technical challenges and help the team navigate ambiguity and vagueness.
• Manage performance, career development, and org design as teams scale.
• Hire, mentor, and retain strong engineering talent; build a pipeline of future technical leaders.
• Proactively identify inefficiencies in engineering workflows, processes, and cross-team handoffs — don't wait to be told something is broken.
• Design and implement systems (planning cadences, metrics, tooling) that increase velocity and reduce friction across teams.
• Establish and track meaningful engineering metrics (cycle time, deployment frequency, incident rates, etc.) to guide decisions.
• Drive continuous process improvement, balancing speed with sustainability.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, architecture, testing, and operational reliability across teams.
• Partner with tech leads and architects on key technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Champion best practices in system design, scalability, and maintainability.
• Stay close enough to the technical details to ask sharp questions and unblock teams when needed.
• Translate company and product strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps across multiple teams.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align priorities and timelines.
• Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to executive leadership.
• Own budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation for your organization.

Benefits

• 100% employer paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members.
• 401K.
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
• Company paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed