{"id":700154,"url":"https://alion.io/job/zushealth-staff-software-engineer-platform","title":"Staff Software Engineer, Platform","company":{"id":686424,"name":"Zus Health","domain":"zushealth.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/zushealth","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":170000,"max":200000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":200000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon Redshift","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon S3","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Fargate","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CircleCI","optional":false},{"name":"CloudFormation","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"DynamoDB","optional":false},{"name":"ElasticSearch","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-14T13:57:25Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-14","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T20:04:21Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":71,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":71},"description":"What we're looking for...\nWe’re looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to join the platform team at Zus which builds our core data services. The ideal candidate will be excited to take on the challenge of processing, storing and delivering the entire health records of millions of patients, providing low latency and high-availability for all operations. You are creative, innovative and think deeply about both the technical problems and business problems our customers are facing.\nThe Platform team has needed to rapidly innovate to stay ahead of data volumes that grow at 10x per year and a growing base of data-savvy customers using Zus to improve patient care. The team is also contending with an evolving regulatory landscape in data privacy and security. Expect to learn a lot and be put on mission-critical projects with direct customer impact.\nThe Platform team is at the heart of everything at Zus. You will work on data services that operate on large scale data using a variety of AWS services (Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, etc) and use data storage technologies such as DynamoDB, postgres, iceberg, elasticsearch and others . You will also work on RESTful and GraphQL APIs that are used both internally and externally. Go is our language of choice and the team is responsible for deploying, maintaining, and operating its pipelines and services.\nAs part of our team, you will...\nCollaborate with product managers and internal users of the Zus Platform to ensure the platform is meeting the needs of our customers, both internal and external\nCollaborate with team members and across Engineering to iteratively prototype and develop new functionality\nProvide technical leadership, contributing to the architecture and design of the team’s systems\nBuild and operate data services driving our applications and APIs\nCoach others to become better engineers\nYou're a good fit because you...\nLearn fast and enjoy open-ended technical challenges\nAre interested in the business problems our customers face\nHave experience with operationally stable, scalable, and cost efficient data services\nEnjoy owning your work and seeing it deploy safely in production\nAre jazzed to build backend services in Go\nHave experience using Cloud Data Warehouses such as Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift or Databricks\nHave experience with at least one of the following: deployment technologies (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)\nAre excited to ~ finally! ~ enable a true digital revolution in healthcare\nThrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startup\nEnjoy collaboration and solving unique problems\nAre in the Boston metro and excited to collaborate in person on a hybrid schedule, or are remote (EST/CST) but willing to travel for in person collaboration occasionally\nIt would be awesome if you were...\nExperienced in building and running large-scale systems in the cloud using Go\nExperienced in AWS DynamoDB\nKnowledgeable about application security\nExperienced in working with healthcare data and APIs\nFamiliar with the FHIR and/or TEFCA standards","description_format":"text","description_chars":3152,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Health Care","Digital Health"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T02:42:00Z"}],"liveness":{"score":27,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.619,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":70,"expected_fill_days":53,"reasons":["conf:9","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/zushealth-staff-software-engineer-platform","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/zushealth-staff-software-engineer-platform.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T02:04:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}