Senior Software Engineer, Cloud
Abbott
Summary
This Senior Software Engineer, Cloud position can work remotely within the U.S. You will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 49 countries. The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day.
Job description
The Opportunity
This Senior Software Engineer, Cloud position can work remotely within the U.S. You will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 49 countries. The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day.
The Senior Software Engineer, Cloud will have strong leadership ability and bring a passion for software engineering to help shape the direction of the team. We highly value versatility and a continuous learning mindset, along with the ability to empower fellow team members. You will contribute to building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.
What You'll Work On
- Learn and improve existing Go-based health care platforms
- Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms
- Develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global health care platform
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems
- Design and implement unit testable code that is highly maintainable
- Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions
- Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts
- Provide new ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services team
- Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
- Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team
- Build out internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer
- Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals
- Create diagrams, flowcharts and models that illustrate the internal design and workflow of solution components
- Collaborate as an engaged member of an agile team, realizing features through development, test, and delivery
- Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request
- Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, other relevant fields
- Minimum 6 years of professional software development experience in an Agile environment, including time spent in technical residency programs, or master's degree with 4+ years of related experience
- Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, Postgres or similar
- Software development experience with Go
- Strong knowledge of idiomatic Go and best practices
- Good knowledge of concurrency in Go - goroutines, channel patterns, Go ecosystem, and tools and frameworks
- Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs
- Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices
- Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization
- Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team
- Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills
- A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development
- Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level
Preferred
- Practical Knowledge of Linux
- Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services
- Experience with open-source software development
- Experience working with relational datastores such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL
- Experience working with Confluence and JIRA
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, other relevant fields
- Minimum 6 years of professional software development experience in an Agile environment, including time spent in technical residency programs, or master's degree with 4+ years of related experience
- Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, Postgres or similar
- Software development experience with Go
- Strong knowledge of idiomatic Go and best practices
- Good knowledge of concurrency in Go - goroutines, channel patterns, Go ecosystem, and tools and frameworks
- Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs
- Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices
- Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization
- Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team
- Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills
- A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development
- Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level
- Practical Knowledge of Linux
- Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services
- Experience with open-source software development
- Experience working with relational datastores such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL
- Experience working with Confluence and JIRA
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Retirement savings plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student debt program
- Education benefit
Company overview
Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare leader with a 135-year legacy of innovation, dedicated to helping people live healthier, fuller lives through life-changing technologies and products. Headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois, the company operates in more than 160 countries with a workforce of approximately 114,000 professionals. Abbott's diversified portfolio spans four core business segments: medical devices, diagnostics, nutrition products, and branded generic pharmaceuticals. The company is particularly renowned for its groundbreaking medical devices including cardiovascular technologies, diabetes management systems like the FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitor, neuromodulation devices for chronic pain, and the AVEIR DR dual chamber leadless pacemaker system. In diagnostics, Abbott has been instrumental in developing critical tests, including the first licensed HIV test in 1985 that helped secure blood supply safety. The company's nutrition division produces leading infant formulas like Similac, while its pharmaceutical business provides quality branded generic medicines. Abbott consistently ranks among Fortune's Most Admired Companies and maintains a strong commitment to sustainability and corporate responsibility, making it a trusted partner in advancing global healthcare.