# Senior Manager, Scientific Data Engineering

> TetraScience · Cambridge, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-25

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Engineering

## Description

### About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Scientific Data Engineers (SDE) spread across multiple forward deployed engineering squads and drive both technical and organizational excellence. This role is ideal for a leader who can zoom out to see systemic inefficiencies across teams and processes, then roll up their sleeves to fix them — while also building a culture where engineers do their best work.

### What You'll Do

Team & People Leadership

-   Supervise and guide SDEs in each squad in planning, implementation, testing, and documentation. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.
-   Lead by example - comfortable with diving deeper into organizational and technical challenges and help the team navigate ambiguity and vagueness.
-   Manage performance, career development, and org design as teams scale
-   Hire, mentor, and retain strong engineering talent; build a pipeline of future technical leaders

Operational Excellence

-   Proactively identify inefficiencies in engineering workflows, processes, and cross-team handoffs — don't wait to be told something is broken
-   Design and implement systems (planning cadences, metrics, tooling) that increase velocity and reduce friction across teams
-   Establish and track meaningful engineering metrics (cycle time, deployment frequency, incident rates, etc.) to guide decisions
-   Drive continuous process improvement, balancing speed with sustainability

Technical & Engineering Excellence

-   Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, architecture, testing, and operational reliability across teams
-   Partner with tech leads and architects on key technical decisions and trade-offs
-   Champion best practices in system design, scalability, and maintainability
-   Stay close enough to the technical details to ask sharp questions and unblock teams when needed

Strategy & Cross-Functional Partnership

-   Translate company and product strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps across multiple teams
-   Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align priorities and timelines
-   Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to executive leadership
-   Own budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation for your organization

## Requirements

### What We're Looking For

Required

-   Overall 10+ years of work experience, including at least 5 years being a manager or leading through other managers
-   Proven track record of identifying and resolving operational inefficiencies at scale (process, tooling, or organizational)
-   Demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence — quality, reliability, and maintainable systems, not just shipping speed
-   Experience managing managers and building organizational structure as teams grow
-   Strong technical background with the credibility to engage deeply on architecture and design decisions
-   Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to executive stakeholders
-   Experience setting and using engineering metrics to drive decisions and improvements
-   Comfortable working in a changing environment and navigating through unclear requirements

Nice to Have

-   Experience scaling an engineering org through significant growth (e.g., 2x–5x headcount)
-   Experience working in startups
-   Experience in working with life science data
-   Experience with distributed/remote engineering teams
-   History of building or maturing engineering processes from scratch (SDLC, release management, incident response)

### What Success Looks Like in the First Year

-   Identify key engineering operational bottlenecks and inefficiencies
-   Engineering teams operate with clear, well-understood processes and reduced cross-team friction
-   Engineering teams able to accurately predict engineering effort and deliver high-quality products on time
-   Measurable improvement in key engineering metrics (velocity, quality, reliability)
-   Engineering is seen as a trusted, proactive partner by Product and executive leadership

## Benefits

100% employer paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members.

401K.

Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

Company paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD.

The salary range for this position is $150K-$230K USD. The salary range posted reflects our target baseline for this role. Final compensation is determined by a thorough evaluation of factors including the candidate’s specific experience, localized market data, and internal team equity.

This position isn't eligible for visa sponsorship

## Apply

[Apply at TetraScience](https://apply.workable.com/tetrascience/j/1E6F393D9B/apply)

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