Forus

Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

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3 months ago

Base Salary

$170k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the compute platform, including container orchestration, networking, autoscaling, service topology, and ingress.
  • Own the data layer across Postgres, OpenSearch, and BigQuery, including performance, scaling, reliability, and cost effectiveness.
  • Build cloud-spend attribution and optimization across compute, data, and storage.
  • Define platform reliability practices, including SLOs, capacity planning, infrastructure observability, and incident response.
  • Build infrastructure-as-code, service patterns, and self-service primitives for product teams.

Requirements

  • Experience operating production Kubernetes at meaningful scale, including networking, autoscaling, and cluster reliability.
  • Deep AWS expertise, including EKS, VPC, and IAM boundaries.
  • Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience focused on platforms and reusable primitives.
  • Experience completing a low-downtime database migration and operating a relational database such as Postgres under production load.
  • Ability to reason from query plans to capacity plans and simplify complex systems.
  • Comfort operating in a regulated, high-stakes environment; familiarity with PHI, HIPAA, or SOC 2 is a strong plus.
  • Demonstrated ability to move quickly, find shortcuts, and deliver ambitious goals.

Benefits

  • Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
  • Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.
  • Unlimited paid time off and 16 weeks of parental leave.
  • 401(k) plan, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
  • Lunch at the office every day and dinner at the office after 6:30 p.m.
  • Meaningful equity for full-time employees.
  • Fully in-person work in New York.

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About Forus

201-500 employees

Forus builds an AI-powered healthcare network and software that connects physicians, pharmacies, insurers, and biopharma to speed therapies to patients. It sells enterprise platforms and data services that coordinate prescribing, benefits, and clinical workflows across stakeholders. Privately held and based in New York, the company is backed by Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, and Accel.

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