Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Zus Health
$170,000–$200,000
Jul 13, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Staff Engineer role on the core platform team, focused on building and operating large-scale backend data services and APIs that process and store clinical health records. The work involves Go-based services running on AWS, multiple storage technologies, and both RESTful and GraphQL APIs. The role suits an experienced backend engineer comfortable with high-volume distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and technical leadership in a startup environment.
Staff level · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $170,000–$200,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,700–4,200
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.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (8)
The JD mentions a Boston metro hybrid preference but the caller has declared this a fully-remote, national-pool role; no metro is set.
Go is explicitly called out as 'our language of choice' with firm language ('jazzed to build backend services in Go') in the requirements section — treated as a hard gate.
The cloud provider requirement is structured as 'at least one of: deployment technologies (e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)' — all three capability areas are gated together as a single 'at least one of' block. Each named tool is captured with its alternatives; AWS is used as the primary cloud since it is the team's stated stack.
Cloud Data Warehouse experience (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks) is listed in the 'good fit' requirements section with firm framing ('Have experience with') — treated as a hard gate with alternatives.
DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Apache Iceberg, REST, and GraphQL appear as stack context ('You will work on data services… using DynamoDB, postgres, iceberg, elasticsearch') rather than under a gating requirements heading — treated as preferred.
FHIR/TEFCA and healthcare data experience appear under the 'It would be awesome if you were…' section — explicitly preferred/nice-to-have.
No minimum total years of experience is stated in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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