Forus
Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure
New York office · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago
PostgreSQLElasticsearchBigQueryAWSKubernetesIncident ResponseComplianceSupply ChainHIPAAResearch
About the role
- 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.
- This is a demanding role, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
- You will be expected to "act like an owner" and commit yourself to Forus' success.
Responsibilities
- We already support patients across more than 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 largest biopharma companies in the world.
- We raised $160M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.
- As a Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure at Forus, you will own the compute and data foundations the entire company runs on.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals.
- You build platforms and reusable primitives rather than one-off resources.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice to have
- 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.
Compensation
- We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity (for full-time employees).
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.
Company info
- 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.
- Forus has exceptional product-market fit and is growing rapidly through organic adoption:
- Accelerating scale: We already support patients across more than 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 largest biopharma companies in the world.
- 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.
- AI-native, durable model: Our business becomes stronger as AI improves, as every new doctor, patient, and partner makes the network more valuable.
- Backing to build for the long term: We raised $160M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.
- Our number one priority is scaling to market demand.
- We are looking for individuals who are high horsepower, high throughput, and hyper resourceful to help us increase capacity and grow.
- We move fast and need to move faster.
- If we succeed, science will be the only limit to medicine.
- All full-time roles are in person in New York.
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