Senior Software Engineer - Data Acquisition

What you'll do:

• Be a member of the Tetra data acquisition engineering team building highly performant connectors to collect data from scientific instruments and other data sources
• Self-start and make concrete progress in the face of ambiguity or conflicting requirements
• Design and develop efficient solutions to extract data from data sources
• Address the resiliency, scale, and high availability requirements of the connectors
• Deliver a high-quality product following the agile software development methodology
• Partner with the product management team to take the vision and ideas and turn them into reality
• Be comfortable working with a geographically dispersed team, in various time zones
• Learn, grow, and be challenged. You will speak up and represent your position amongst peers and leadership while remaining resilient and open to constructive feedback.

Requirements:

• 8+ Years of experience designing and developing distributed systems to collect and process large datasets
• Proficient with Node.js, Typescript, and associated technologies, OR Python and associated technologies
• Proficient with container technologies like Docker
• Proficient with cloud infrastructure providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Proficient with Databases and SQL
• Familiar with networking concepts like DNS, TLS, tunneling
• Experience writing maintainable unit tests, and automated integration tests
• Experience with Linux and cloud-based performance tuning
• Good application debugging skills
• Strong communication skills, including technical writing
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent major
• Experience in Life Sciences or scientific data is a big plus!