Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

About the Role

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, data layer, cloud reliability, and infrastructure economics. You will make architecture decisions that compound for years: how services run and communicate, how data stores scale, what product teams can self-serve, and where we simplify or migrate before complexity becomes a constraint. This is a chance to shape the platform early enough that the right abstractions can materially change how quickly the entire company builds.

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. If you are low-ego, hungry to learn, and excited about intense, impactful work that drives both company growth and accelerated career progression, we want to hear from you.

If You Join, You Will

• 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

We'll Be Most Excited If You Have

• Experience operating production Kubernetes at meaningful 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, and/or SOC 2 is a strong plus, as is a track record of mastering a new 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.

Additional information

This is a list of ideal qualifications for this position. If you don't meet every single one of them, you should still consider applying! We’re excited to work with people from underrepresented backgrounds, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

Working with US

Forus is based in New York, with our full team working out of a beautiful and spacious office in SoHo.

We run as a high-trust environment with high autonomy, which requires that everyone is fully competent and operates in line with our principles:

• Do the math. Be rigorous, assume nothing. Break problems down and reason from the ground up. Stay open to changing your mind.
• Resourceful optimism. Assume problems are solvable. Be audacious. Resist false constraints and push beyond the obvious before deciding.
• Spit it out. Speak directly, invite critique, avoid equivocation. We want right answers, not comfortable ones. All killer, no filler.
• Raise the bar. Hold a high standard for your pace and execution, and elevate the performance of the team around you. Mamba mentality.
• Fight for users. Start with users’ realities, not ours. Resist optimizing for internal convenience over user outcomes.

Pay and benefits

We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity (for full-time employees). Everyone who joins will be a major contributor to our success, and we reflect this through ownership and pay.

We also provide rich benefits to ensure you can focus on creating impact (for full-time employees):

• 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.

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company’s size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Forus (for full-time employees). Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity.