Overview
TetraScience is the Scientific Data and AI Cloud company. We are catalyzing the Scientific AI revolution by designing and industrializing AI-native scientific data sets, which we bring to life in a growing suite of next gen lab data management solutions, scientific use cases, and AI-enabled outcomes. TetraScience is the category leader in this vital new market, generating more revenue than all other companies in the aggregate. In the last year alone, the world's dominant players in compute, cloud, data, and AI infrastructure have converged on TetraScience as the de facto standard, entering into co-innovation and go-to-market partnerships : Latest News and Announcements | TetraScience Newsroom
In connection with your candidacy, you will be asked to carefully review the Tetra Way letter, authored directly by Patrick Grady, our co-founder and CEO. This letter is designed to assist you in better understanding whether TetraScience is the right fit for you from a values and ethos perspective. It is impossible to overstate the importance of this document and you are encouraged to take it literally and reflect on whether you are aligned with our unique approach to company and team building. If you join us, you will be expected to embody its contents each day.
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 enable both continuous and 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 environmentsDemonstrated experience as a technical leader or architect, making key decisions on system design, scalability, performance, and cost optimizationStrong proficiency in API-first design, including REST, GraphQL, and OpenAPI specifications designing APIs that are scalable, secure, versioned, and extensibleStrong proficiency in TypeScript and Python, with a focus on building highly performant backend servicesExpertise 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 EventBridgeExpert knowledge of infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as CloudFormation and CDK, CI / CD pipelines, and strong opinions on production deployment strategy across dozens of platformsSolid understanding of observability best practices, including monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing for SLI / SLO / SLA designAbility to articulate ideas clearly, present findings persuasively, and build rapport with clients and team membersStrong collaboration skills and the ability to partner effectively with cross-functional teamsBenefits
100% employer-paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family membersUnlimited paid time off (PTO)401KFlexible working arrangements - Remote workCompany paid Life Insurance, LTD / STDA culture of continuous improvement where you can grow your career and get coachingWe are not currently providing visa sponsorship for this position.
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