Lead Platform Engineer
TetraScience
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
About
The Role As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role in evolving and scaling our cloud-native Tetra data platform to handle 100× growth in data volume and user demand. You'll partner with engineering, data, and AI teams to design scalable architectures, proactively anticipate and mitigate scaling challenges, and ensure our platform remains performant, reliable, and cost-efficient as it grows. This is a highly impactful role for an engineer who is passionate about distributed systems, understands the trade-offs of large-scale design, and thrives on turning ambitious scalability goals into concrete technical strategies. If you're excited by the challenge of architecting cloud-native infrastructure to power massive growth and thrive on solving complex scalability problems, we'd love to hear from you.
What You Will Do
Architect and evolve our cloud-native platform infrastructure to support high-throughput, low-latency data processing patterns, customer-facing features, and design platform to meet scalability requirements
Design scalable, distributed systems powering complex capabilities such as authentication & authorization, data lifecycle management, search infrastructure, operational intelligence, and real-time event processing
Proactively analyze platform performance and scalability; identify potential constraints and define strategies that step-function growth
Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver infrastructure that supports new services, customer-facing applications, and high-volume data processing workloads
Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CloudFormation, AWS CDK) to automate, standardize, and secure deployments to support online upgrades and on-demand infrastructure allocation
Enhance observability and monitoring to ensure reliability, cost efficiency, and rapid incident response
Champion best practices in distributed systems design, scalability, and performance optimization, and share architectural insights through design reviews and technical documentation.
Requirements
10+ years of hands‑on experience in software and infrastructure engineering, with a proven track record of designing, building, and scaling distributed, cloud‑native systems in production environments
Demonstrated experience as a technical leader or architect, making key decisions on system design, scalability, performance, and cost optimization
Strong proficiency in API‑first design, including REST, GraphQL, and OpenAPI specifications designing APIs that are scalable, secure, versioned, and extensible
Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Python, with a focus on building highly performant backend services
Expertise in AWS cloud services and architecture, including deep experience with core services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS, IAM, S3) and advanced data and messaging tools such as SQS, Kinesis, Kafka, and EventBridge
Expert knowledge of infrastructure‑as‑code frameworks such as CloudFormation and CDK, CI/CD pipelines, and strong opinions on production deployment strategy across dozens of platforms
Solid understanding of observability best practices, including monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing for SLI/SLO/SLA design
Ability to articulate ideas clearly, present findings persuasively, and build rapport with clients and team members.
Strong collaboration skills and the ability to partner effectively with cross‑functional teams
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
#J-18808-Ljbffr
Languages
- English
Notice for Users
This job comes from a TieTalent partner platform. Click "Apply Now" to submit your application directly on their site.