# Lead Software Platform Engineer

**Company:** [TetraScience](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tetrascience)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Python, AWS, EC2, AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, IAM, S3, SQS, Kinesis, Kafka, Eventbridge, CloudFormation, Aws Cdk
**Posted:** 2026-06-05

> Lead Platform Engineer architecting and scaling distributed cloud-native backend services, owning authorization, metadata, governance, and high-throughput event processing on AWS. Requires 10+ years building production-grade platforms and deep expertise in TypeScript, Python, and IaC.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve cloud-native platform and services to support high-throughput, low-latency data processing patterns, customer-facing features, and scalability requirements.
- Design scalable, distributed systems powering authentication & authorization, data lifecycle management, metadata management, operational intelligence, and real-time event processing.
- Evolve the authorization service toward modern identity standards and customer-configurable, fine-grained access models that scale without a release for every new role, including authorization for non-human identities (service-to-service, AI agents, MCP-based tooling).
- Build systems that capture and enforce structured metadata at ingest and serve it through clean service contracts; collaborate across the platform metadata and semantic/ontology layer boundary.
- Build governance primitives for a regulated environment — compliance-grade audit trail, dataset-level access controls, and approval / eSignature workflows.
- 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; share architectural insights through design reviews and technical documentation.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering, with a proven track record of designing, building, and scaling distributed, cloud-native backend services and platforms in production.
- 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
- Culture of continuous improvement where you can grow your career and get coaching

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