As a Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure at Forus, you will own the compute and data foundations the entire company runs on. You will own our EKS platform, our data layer, and the reliability and cost of everything running in our cloud. You will make the foundational architecture calls that compound for years: how we run compute, what our database platform should be, and how services talk to each other. You will also lead the migrations that reduce risk for the business as we scale.
Key Responsibilities
Own our compute platform, including container orchestration, networking, autoscaling, service topology, and ingress, and define the architecture and patterns that keep it reliable and simple as we scale.
Own our data layer, driving performance, scaling, and reliability across our databases (Postgres, OpenSearch, BigQuery), and lead the platform decisions that keep our datastores fast and cost-effective as load grows.
Own cloud spend by building attribution and driving optimization across compute, data, and storage, so spend grows more slowly than the business does.
Define and own platform reliability, including SLOs, capacity planning, infrastructure observability, and incident response for the systems every product team depends on.
Build the infrastructure-as-code, service patterns, and self-serve primitives that let product teams provision and operate services safely without waiting on you.
Required Qualifications
A track record of operating production Kubernetes at scale, including networking, autoscaling, and cluster reliability.
Deep AWS expertise (EKS, VPC, IAM boundaries) and strong infrastructure-as-code with Terraform. You build platforms and reusable primitives rather than one-off resources.
Run a real, low-downtime database migration and operated a relational store like Postgres under production load, with the ability to reason from a query plan to a capacity plan.
Strong instincts for reducing complexity. You are drawn to consolidating and simplifying systems rather than adding surface area.
Comfort operating in a regulated, high-stakes environment. Familiarity with PHI, HIPAA, or SOC 2 is a strong plus, as is a track record of mastering a high-stakes domain quickly.
A track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals.
High NPS with your former teammates.
About Forus
Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients. Our platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment, including insurance coverage, financial assistance, and supply chain navigation. We provide this support free to doctors and patients, helping them get life-changing medicine faster, cheaper, and easier. The resulting network enables biopharma companies to design better research, launch new drugs more effectively, and invest in harder-to-treat conditions.
Benefits
Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.
Unlimited paid time off (PTO) and 16 weeks of parental leave.
401K plan setup, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
Lunch at the office every day and Dinner at the office after 6:30 pm.
