Software Engineering Technical Lead, Platform - Primitives & Registry

TetraScience • Boston, MA

19h • Remote

About The Position

TetraScience is seeking a Software Engineering Technical Lead to design and build its next-generation Primitives and Registry platform. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on architecting, coding, API design, data modeling, and operating distributed services. The role involves technical leadership for a platform team, shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, and translating platform strategy into reliable software. It sits at the intersection of developer platforms, data contracts, workflow systems, and product engineering, enabling builders to publish, version, discover, validate, govern, and compose scientific logic across the Tetra OS. The platform is evolving to support new primitives and rapid expansion, leveraging best-in-class tools while building Tetra-specific layers for contracts, governance, lineage, and developer experience to ensure scientific workflows are reusable and trustworthy.

Requirements

• Significant experience building production platform, infrastructure, developer-experience, artifact, registry, workflow, or data-platform systems.
• Strong hands-on engineering ability; comfortable spending most of your time writing, reviewing, and operating production code.
• Experience owning architecture and implementation for ambiguous, cross-cutting systems used by multiple engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of package, artifact, and registry concepts such as semantic versioning, dependency resolution, immutable versions, artifact promotion, deprecation, and supply-chain integrity.
• Strong product engineering judgment: ability to make technically rigorous systems usable for real builders.
• Strong instincts for security, governance, safety, and observability in systems where human developers, automation, and AI agents are first-class creators of reusable components.
• Excellent technical communication and leadership: ability to explain complex architecture clearly, make pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions, mentor engineers, and operate well under ambiguity.

Nice To Haves

• Deep experience building package, artifact, or registry systems such as PyPI, NPM, Maven, JFrog Artifactory, OCI registries, internal package indexes, schema registries, data catalogs, model registries, workflow registries, lineage systems, or metadata platforms.
• Experience building developer-platform tooling such as SDKs, CLIs, CI/CD systems, internal developer portals, or self-service release systems.
• Experience with workflow and orchestration systems such as Argo, Airflow, Dagster, Temporal, Kestra, Prefect, Databricks workflows, or similar.
• Experience with data contract, lineage, governance, provenance, or regulated-workflow concepts, especially in scientific, healthcare, financial, or other high-trust environments.
• Experience building platforms for internal developers, external developers, field teams, data/ML engineers, technical customer teams, or AI agents.
• Experience leading migrations from bespoke scripts or manual release processes to governed, reusable, observable platform workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate core systems for TetraScience's artifact and registry platform, writing production code across services, APIs, SDKs, CLIs, data models, and platform workflows.
• Define technical boundaries between existing artifact infrastructure and Tetra-specific registry, contract, governance, lineage, and developer experience systems.
• Design APIs, SDK/CLI workflows, registry models, and developer workflows for authoring, validating, publishing, versioning, promoting, consuming, and deprecating reusable software artifacts.
• Establish semantics for versioning, compatibility, immutability, dependency metadata, governance tiers, environment promotion, and supply-chain integrity.
• Build guardrails for AI agents and human developers, including validation, provenance, policy enforcement, observability, and clear failure modes.
• Create architecture supporting scientific auditability, lineage, and regulated workflows.
• Lead critical technical paths from design through implementation, production rollout, observability, and operational ownership.
• Identify opportunities to reuse mature open-source or commercial systems and determine where TetraScience needs an opinionated product layer.
• Review code, write design documents, mentor engineers, and improve platform design, implementation quality, documentation, and operations.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• 401K
• Flexible working arrangements - Remote work
• Company paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD
• A culture of continuous improvement where you can grow your career and get coaching

What This Job Offers

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