Software Engineering Technical Lead – Platform, Primitives & Registry

TetraScience

Software Engineering Technical Lead driving the next-generation Primitives and Registry platform at TetraScience. Collaborating with small teams to design and implement scientific data accessibility systems.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeBoston • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
- We are not currently providing visa sponsorship for this position.

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Hard Skills & Tools

production codeAPIsSDKsCLIsdata modelsversioningdependency resolutionartifact promotionobservabilityarchitecture design

Soft Skills

technical communicationleadershipproduct engineering judgmentmentoringdecision makingoperating under ambiguitysecurity instinctsgovernance instinctssafety instinctscollaboration