Software Engineering Technical Lead, Platform - Primitives & Registry

TetraScience • Boston, MA

1d • 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, designing APIs and data models, reviewing implementations, and operating distributed services. The role involves serving as a technical lead for a platform team, shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, and translating ambiguous platform strategy into reliable software. The position sits at the intersection of developer platforms, data contracts, workflow systems, and product engineering, focusing on systems that enable internal and external builders to publish, version, discover, validate, govern, and compose scientific logic across the Tetra OS. The role will evolve existing artifact-management systems to support new platform primitives and rapid expansion, focusing on Tetra-specific contracts, governance, lineage, and developer experience to make scientific workflows reusable and trustworthy.

Requirements

• Significant experience building production platform, infrastructure, developer-experience, artifact, registry, workflow, or data-platform systems.
• Strong hands-on engineering ability; you are 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: you can 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 all first-class creators of reusable components.
• Excellent technical communication and leadership: you can 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.
• Deep experience building developer-platform tooling such as SDKs, CLIs, CI/CD systems, internal developer portals, or self-service release systems.
• Deep experience building workflow and orchestration systems such as Argo, Airflow, Dagster, Temporal, Kestra, Prefect, Databricks workflows, or similar.
• Deep 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, spending substantial day-to-day time writing production code across services, APIs, SDKs, CLIs, data models, and platform workflows.
• Define durable technical boundaries between existing package/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 strong semantics for versioning, compatibility, immutability, dependency metadata, governance tiers, environment promotion, and supply-chain integrity.
• Build guardrails that make AI agents and human developers safe, productive first-class builders, including validation, provenance, policy enforcement, observability, and clear failure modes.
• Create architecture that supports scientific auditability, lineage, and regulated workflows without making early builder workflows unnecessarily heavy.
• Lead critical technical paths from design through implementation, production rollout, observability, and operational ownership, partnering with Product, Engineering, and field teams to turn platform strategy into staged delivery.
• Identify where mature open-source or commercial systems should be reused, where TetraScience needs an opinionated product layer, and how the architecture should evolve as the system matures.
• Review code, write design documents, mentor engineers, and raise the technical bar for 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