Staff Software Engineer, Platform
About The Position
Weâre looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to join the âCostcoâ 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.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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 teamâs systems
- Coach others to become better engineers
- Partner with product managers and other Zusers
Benefits
- 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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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