Lead Software Engineer - Tech Standardization (Hybrid)

Socket.dev; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter support

Tuition assistance

Employee resource groups

Hackathons

Job summary

athenahealth seeks a Lead Software Engineer, Tech Standardization in Boston to drive modernization, observability, and internal platform capabilities at scale. You will influence engineering practices, guide teams, and work with cross‑functional partners in a hybrid Boston, MA setting.

The role focuses on developer productivity, standardized patterns, SDK delivery, and telemetry pipelines, with a strong emphasis on AI-assisted tooling to improve quality and velocity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading engineers, technical projects, or engineering workstreams.
• Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, cloud enablement, or modernization efforts.
• Strong hands-on programming experience in Java and/or Python.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, and large-scale platform migration patterns.
• Experience engineering observability SDKs, instrumentation patterns, and telemetry integrations using Datadog, OpenTelemetry, logs, metrics, and traces.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automation, security controls, and reliable software delivery practices.
• Experience working in regulated environments with expectations for availability, privacy, security, and compliance.
• Strong coaching, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience using responsible AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve productivity and quality.

Responsibilities

• Guide and mentor a team of engineers, creating an environment that supports collaboration, growth, and strong engineering practices.
• Define and execute the strategy for internal developer platform capabilities that improve developer productivity, standardization, and adoption of supported engineering practices.
• Lead modernization, standardization, and migration efforts across platform services and engineering workflows.
• Lead observability integration work by delivering supported software development kits (SDKs), instrumentation patterns, and telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Improve the developer experience through paved paths, supported libraries, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, automation, and code-quality standards.
• Oversee multiple modernization programs to ensure alignment with business requirements, compliance standards, delivery commitments, and engineering best practices.
• Work with product managers, stakeholders, and partner teams to align goals and deliverables, communicate tradeoffs, and manage expectations.
• Serve as a visible U.S. time zone leader for technology standards, providing timely decisions, architectural guidance, and cross-team connections.
• Apply an AI-first mindset by helping the team use AI-assisted tools to improve engineering quality, speed, and learning in day-to-day workflows.
• Drive engineering best practices including testing, continuous integration and delivery, application resiliency, security, service ownership, and incident learning.

Skills

Java

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

CI/CD

AI-assisted tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Datadog SDKs

OpenTelemetry SDKs

Job description

athenahealth seeks a Lead Software Engineer, Tech Standardization in Boston to drive modernization, observability, and internal platform capabilities at scale. You will influence engineering practices, guide teams, and work with cross‑functional partners in a hybrid Boston, MA setting.

The role focuses on developer productivity, standardized patterns, SDK delivery, and telemetry pipelines, with a strong emphasis on AI-assisted tooling to improve quality and velocity.