Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure at Forus
New York, NY
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Jul 13, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A platform and infrastructure engineering role focused on owning the compute and data foundations of a healthcare technology company. Day-to-day work spans managing a Kubernetes-based container platform on AWS, maintaining and scaling relational and search databases, controlling cloud costs, and building self-serve infrastructure tooling for product teams. Best suited to engineers with hands-on production Kubernetes and Terraform experience who are comfortable in regulated environments.
Senior level · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 780 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 590–1,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is titled 'Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure' and the JD emphasizes building platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and reusable primitives (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but it also has a strong operational/systems-administration dimension (cluster reliability, incident response, database operations) that could support 15-1244. The primary day-to-day work — writing IaC, building self-serve primitives, and owning architectural decisions — tips it to 15-1252.
No explicit total years of experience requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
The qualifications section is framed as 'We'll be most excited if you have' and the posting explicitly notes 'This is a list of ideal qualifications… If you don't meet every single one of them, you should still consider applying.' This creates genuine ambiguity about which skills are hard gates. Kubernetes, AWS/EKS, Terraform, and PostgreSQL are treated as required given the depth of ownership described in the role responsibilities and the specificity of the qualifications language ('track record of operating production Kubernetes at scale', 'deep AWS expertise', 'strong infrastructure-as-code with Terraform', 'operated a relational store like Postgres under production load').
OpenSearch and BigQuery appear only as named datastores in the role description context, not as explicit qualification gates — listed as preferred.
HIPAA/PHI and SOC 2 are explicitly called 'a strong plus' in the qualifications section — listed as preferred.
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