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Zus

Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Zus
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remote staff full-time USD 170,000-200,000 per-year-salary

First indexed 14 Jul 2026

Description

Zus is a shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations.

We are 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.

As part of our team, you will:

  • Collaborate 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
  • Collaborate with team members and across Engineering to iteratively prototype and develop new functionality
  • Provide technical leadership, contributing to the architecture and design of the team’s systems
  • Build and operate data services driving our applications and APIs
  • Coach others to become better engineers

You are a good fit because you:

  • Learn fast and enjoy open-ended technical challenges
  • Are interested in the business problems our customers face
  • Have experience with operationally stable, scalable, and cost-efficient data services
  • Enjoy owning your work and seeing it deploy safely in production
  • Are skilled at building backend services in Go
  • Have experience using Cloud Data Warehouses such as Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift, or Databricks
  • Have 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.)

It would be awesome if you were:

  • Experienced in building and running large-scale systems in the cloud using Go
  • Experienced in AWS DynamoDB
  • Knowledgeable about application security
  • Experienced in working with healthcare data and APIs
  • Familiar with the FHIR and/or TEFCA standards

Additional Information:

  • Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team, a combination of cash and equity
  • Robust benefits that include health insurance, wellness benefits, 401k with a match, unlimited PTO
  • Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it)
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