Tech
US$200,000 – US$270,000 / yr base salary
Posted 23 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Tech Lead, Tetra Apps Platform”
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The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Contract
- Full-time
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
| Base salary | US$200,000 – US$270,000 / yr |
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Who We Are
TetraScience is the Scientific Data and AI company building Tetra OS, the operating system for scientific intelligence. 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.
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.
The Role
The Tetra Apps platform is how scientists, partners, and TetraScience teams build and run containerized applications on Tetra OS. The platform owns except the app itself - packaging and templates, provisioning, routing, identity and authorization boundaries, observability, upgrades, and the developer experience that ties it all together.
We are hiring the Tech Lead for this platform. This is a technical lead-level individual contributor seat, not a people-management role. You will be the technical design authority for the Tetra Apps runtime, own sprint and quarterly planning for the team alongside your product partner, and be accountable for what the team commits to, ships, and and operates in production. You will work with the team who own apps infrastructure today, supporting teams in adjacent areas like DevOps and security, and with the product and field teams whose work runs through the platform.
You will inherit a production platform with business value, tech debt, and future needs. You will keep that system running, make incremental improvements, and steer it toward an architecture that holds for years.
What You Will Do
- Own the technical architecture of the Tetra Apps platform: how applications are developed, packaged, provisioned, routed, authenticated, isolated, observed, upgraded, and retired.
- App runtime. Design and evolve the app proxy and routing layer, container provisioning and lifecycle on ECS, per-app identities (service accounts, IAM roles, database credentials), and the install, upgrade, and rollback paths that must work in both multitenant cloud and customer-hosted environments.
- App security. Design security into the platform: tenant and per-user data boundaries; delegated authorization; secrets handling; browser security, and server-side enforcement of approval and install gates. Threat-model a platform that runs external code, including agents.