TetraScience is the Scientific Data and AI Cloud company. We're pioneering the Scientific AI revolution by crafting AI-native scientific data sets and bringing them to life through cutting-edge lab data management solutions, scientific use cases, and AI-driven outcomes.
We're the category leader in this emerging market, generating more revenue than all competitors combined. In the past year, tech titans in compute, cloud, data, and AI infrastructure have converged on TetraScience as the go-to standard, sparking co-innovation and strategic partnerships: Latest News and Announcements | TetraScience Newsroom
As part of your application, you'll want to carefully review the Tetra Way letter, personally authored by Patrick Grady, our co-founder and CEO. This document helps you understand whether TetraScience aligns with your values and professional ethos.
Let's be crystal clear: this document is crucial. We genuinely want you to reflect deeply on whether our approach resonates with you. If you join us, living these principles isn't optional—it's fundamental.
The Role
As a Lead Platform Engineer, you'll be instrumental in evolving our cloud-native Tetra data platform to handle 100× growth in data volume and user demand. You'll collaborate across engineering, data, and AI teams to design scalable architectures, anticipate potential bottlenecks, and ensure our platform remains performant, reliable, and cost-effective during explosive growth.
This role is perfect for an engineer who geeks out on distributed systems, intuitively understands complex architectural trade-offs, and gets fired up about transforming ambitious scalability goals into tangible technical strategies.
If architecting cloud-native infrastructure that powers massive growth makes your heart race, we want to talk.
What You will Do
- Architect and evolve our cloud-native platform infrastructure to support high-throughput, low-latency data processing, customer features, and scalability requirements.
- Design distributed systems powering complex capabilities like authentication & authorization, data lifecycle management, search infrastructure, operational intelligence, and real-time event processing.
- Proactively analyze platform performance and scalability; identify potential constraints and craft strategies for continuous and exponential growth.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver infrastructure supporting new services, customer applications, and high-volume data processing.
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, AWS CDK) to automate, standardize, and secure deployments for online upgrades and on-demand infrastructure allocation.
- Enhance observability and monitoring to guarantee reliability, cost efficiency, and rapid incident response.
Champion best practices in distributed systems design, scalability, and performance optimization, sharing architectural insights through design reviews and technical documentation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on software and infrastructure engineering, with a proven track record of designing, building, and scaling distributed, cloud-native systems in production.
- Demonstrated experience as a technical leader or architect, making pivotal decisions on system design, scalability, performance, and cost optimization.
- Strong proficiency in API-first design, including REST, GraphQL, and OpenAPI specifications for creating scalable, secure, versioned, and extensible APIs.
- 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 (EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS, IAM, S3) and advanced data/messaging tools like SQS, Kinesis, Kafka, and EventBridge.
- Expert knowledge of infrastructure-as-code frameworks like CloudFormation and CDK, CI/CD pipelines, and strong opinions on production deployment strategies.
- 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 teammates.
- Strong collaboration skills and cross-functional team partnership.
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
- A culture of continuous improvement where you can grow your career and get coaching
We are not currently providing visa sponsorship for this position.
