# Director of Engineering, Lakehouse Platform
**Company:** [TetraScience](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tetrascience)
**Location:** Boston, MA
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Spark, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Databricks, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Kafka, Apache Flink
**Posted:** 2026-05-26
> Lead the Lakehouse Platform team building foundational data infrastructure for scientific AI. Own architecture, drive technical strategy, and manage 8+ engineers as a player-coach with deep hands-on contribution.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities

### Architecture and Technical Strategy
- Own and evolve the Lakehouse Platform and Infrastructure foundations including storage layer, catalog, Spark query engine, Databricks IaC, platform data pipelines, and releases
- Lead the Lakehouse Developer Platform and DX supporting Tetraflows, Semantic services, and Data Resources
- Evolve Lakehouse architecture across open table formats, partition strategies, schema evolution, governance, and API contracts
- Design for durability: version coupling, artifact deployment safety, and protocol compatibility across platform releases
- Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams on integration contracts, data pipelines, shared execution roadmaps, and operational excellence standards

### Engineering Execution
- Own technical prioritization and delivery across a team of 8+ engineers; drive sprint-level execution and quarterly delivery commitments
- Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for production issues; build systemic fixes
- Make and defend build-vs-buy decisions for Lakehouse components
- Establish engineering standards: testing practices, observability instrumentation, and release safety for data infrastructure

### People and Team Development
- Coach engineers at all levels with technical mentorship, growth plans, and direct performance feedback
- Hire and develop senior ICs and tech leads; build team depth to reduce knowledge concentration risk
- Model the builder culture: write code, ship internal tools, and set the bar for technical craft

### AI-Forward Development
- Champion AI-assisted development practices across the team
- Identify opportunities to apply AI to data quality, schema inference, anomaly detection, and platform observability
- Contribute to broader AI platform strategy from the Lakehouse data infrastructure layer

## Requirements

### Required
- 10+ years of engineering experience at top-tier technology organizations, with at least 4 years focused on data engineering or distributed systems at production scale
- Expertise in Lakehouse technologies: Apache Spark, Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg, Databricks or equivalent distributed compute platform
- Experience leading Data Engineering teams (6+ engineers) with direct accountability for strategy, execution, operational excellence, and people development
- Strong command of distributed systems, cloud, and modern data stack: columnar and open table formats, query execution engines, partitioning strategies, metadata catalogs, decoupled storage and compute
- Track record of building, shipping, and operating Tier 1 production data platforms
- Cloud-native fluency: AWS, GCP, or Azure; containerization; Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or equivalent)
- Clear written and verbal communication for presenting architectural decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders

### Strong Advantage
- Experience in regulated industries (life sciences, healthcare, financial services) with data governance and auditability requirements
- Familiarity with scientific data pipelines, analysis, or instrument data pipelines
- Real-time or near-real-time streaming experience (Kafka, Apache Flink, or equivalent)
- Exposure to AI/ML workflows over Lakehouse data: feature stores, ML pipelines, or vector search infrastructure
- Prior career arc as a senior IC (Staff+ / Principal Engineer) before moving into engineering leadership

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Stock options in VC-backed Series C company
- 100% employer-paid benefits for eligible employees and immediate family members
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Flexible working arrangements
- Company-paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD
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