Zus Health

Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Posted 18 Hours Ago

Hiring Remotely in United States

Remote

170K-200K Annually

Senior level

Healthtech • Information Technology

Accelerating digital health for all

The Role

Join Zus as a Staff Engineer to innovate data services for healthcare, focusing on data processing, quality, and access control challenges in a fast-paced startup environment.

Summary Generated by Built In

Who we are

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. Founded in 2021 by Jonathan Bush, co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, Zus partners with HIEs and other data networks to aggregate patient clinical history and then translates that history into user-friendly information at the point of care. Zus's mission is to catalyze healthcare's greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights - so that they can build up, not around.

What we're looking for

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to join the “Costco” team at Zus, which builds services for managing our rapidly growing bulk data offerings while adhering to complex healthcare access control requirements.

The ideal candidate will be excited to take on the challenge of processing, storing and delivering the entire health records of millions of patients, adopting tools to handle growing scale, and ensuring high data quality and freshness. You are creative, innovative and love to run experiments to explore the paths to evolve and develop our platform as we scale.

As As part of the core Zus platform, the Costco 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 data to improve patient care. They are also contending with an evolving regulatory landscape in data privacy and security.

On the Costco team, you will work with microservices in Go, streaming data pipelines in AWS, and state-of-the-art data technologies including Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, Snowflake, and dbt. Expect to learn a lot and be put on mission-critical projects with direct customer impact.

As part of our team, you will

Build and operate data services driving our applications and APIs
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
Coach others to become better engineers
Partner with product managers and other Zusers

You're a good fit because you

Learn fast and enjoy open-ended technical challenges
Have experience with operationally stable, scalable, and cost efficient data services
Enjoy owning your work and seeing it deploy safely in production
Are experienced 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.)
Are excited to ~ finally! ~ enable a true digital revolution in healthcare
Thrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startup
Enjoy collaboration and solving unique problems

It would be awesome if you were

Experienced at working with petabyte-scale data
Experienced with Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, and other large-scale data technologies
Experienced with AuthN/AuthZ and fine-grained access control
Familiar with multiple languages including either Go or Python
Experienced in working with healthcare data and APIs
Familiar with the FHIR and/or TEFCA standards

We will offer you…

• 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)

Please Note: Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don’t apply unless they meet 100% of the job criteria. While we have worked to consolidate the minimum qualifications for each role, we aren’t looking for someone who checks each box on a page; we’re looking for active learners and people who care about disrupting the current healthcare system with their unique experiences.

We do not conduct interviews by text nor will we send you a job offer unless you've interviewed with multiple people, including the Director of People & Talent, over video interviews. Job scams do exist so please be careful with your personal information.