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.