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We help the world’s leading life sciences firms turn fragmented scientific data into AI-native assets and scientific workflows that accelerate discovery, development, and manufacturing. TetraScience’s growing ecosystem of strategic partners includes NVIDIA, Databricks, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Snowflake, Google, and Microsoft.\nIn connection with your candidacy, you will be asked to carefully review “ The Tetra Way,” authored by our CEO, Patrick Grady; it is impossible to overstate the importance of this document, and you should take it literally as you decide whether our mission, culture, and expectations are right for you.\nThe Role\nWe are seeking a highly skilled Senior .NET Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in designing and developing high-performance, scalable applications using C#, the .NET Framework, and TypeScript. The role involves implementing automated testing and leveraging GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines. 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Knowledge and experience with AWS cloud services are also essential.\nWhat You Will Do\nHigh-Performance, Distributed, and Scalable Application Design:\nArchitect, design, and maintain distributed applications, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security.\nFull-Stack Development:\nDevelop backend services (primarily C#/.NET and TypeScript) and cloud APIs, as well as modern, responsive front-end applications using TypeScript/React.\nMicroservices Architecture:\nDesign and implement loosely coupled, independently deployable services using AWS services such as DynamoDB, RDS, SQS, Lambda, API Gateway, and others.\nAutomated Testing:\nCreate and maintain automated unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end tests across microservices and UI layers.\nCI/CD Pipelines:\nUse GitHub Actions to implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for both backend services and front-end applications.\nProduction Debugging & Optimization:\nDiagnose and resolve production issues in distributed systems, including service-to-service communication, CPU/memory/network bottlenecks, and AWS service performance.\nObservability & Operational Excellence:\nInstrument services using OpenTelemetry (or equivalent) to enable earlier fault detection, clearer alerting, and stronger operational visibility. Contribute to SLO definition and MTTR reduction efforts across the platform.\nCollaboration & Communication:\nWork closely with product managers, tech leads, and other engineers to deliver reliable, maintainable, and scalable solutions. Communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nRequirements\nWhat You Will Bring\nRequired Skills\nStrong proficiency in backend service development using C#/.NET. \nStrong proficiency in TypeScript and React for front-end UI.\nExperience building and operating software in both on-premises/customer-hosted environments and cloud-native multi-tenant environments, with an understanding of how debugging, deployment, and scaling differ between the two.\nHands-on experience with AWS DynamoDB, RDS, SQS (or an equivalent cloud provider) in production environments.\nExperience with microservices patterns (service discovery, API gateway, messaging/queueing, data partitioning).\nExperience with automated testing at multiple levels.\nStrong Git skills and hands-on experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD.\nStrong troubleshooting skills for distributed systems in production.\nSolid understanding of cloud-native architecture and AWS best practices.\nFamiliarity with observability tooling and practices (OpenTelemetry, structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics-based alerting) to support proactive issue detection.\nDesirable Skills\nFamiliarity with containerization (Docker) and experience defining AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation (or AWS CDK) to support predictable and repeatable environments.\nExperience with performance tuning and designing scalable solutions.\nExperience with, or exposure to, scientific instrument software / Chromatography Data Systems (CDS) e.g., Waters Empower, Thermo Chromeleon, Cytiva UNICORN, Agilent OpenLab, along with knowledge of instrument integration pattern and practices is a strong plus.\nSoft Skills Needed:\nExcellent verbal and written communication.\nStrong collaboration skills in cross-functional teams.\nAnalytical mindset with high attention to detail.\nWhy TetraScience\nMission-driven: your infrastructure directly enables scientific drug development processes that save and extend lives.\nBuilder culture: everyone ships - engineers, managers, and leadership. No passengers.\nTechnically ambitious: we are rebuilding how science-grade data infrastructure works, not deploying off-the-shelf solutions. \nAI-first: we apply AI across every layer of the platform today, not as a future roadmap item.\nCompetitive compensation, meaningful equity, and strong benefits.\nBenefits\n100% employer-paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members\nUnlimited paid time off (PTO)\n401K\nFlexible working arrangements - Remote work\nCompany paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD\nA culture of continuous improvement where you can grow your career and get coaching\nNo visa sponsorship is available for this position\nThe salary range for this position is $170,000-$220,000 USD. The salary range posted reflects our target baseline for this role. 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