Senior Software Engineer, Cloud

About the Role Abbott is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Cloud to design, build, and scale secure, high-performance cloud services for a global healthcare platform. You’ll collaborate with architecture, InfoSec, and data teams to develop APIs, microservices, and internal tooling that enable reliable, low-latency access to medical data. The role emphasizes strong Go expertise, thoughtful system design, testable and maintainable code, and active participation in architectural decisions within an agile, distributed team.

What You'll Do

• 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

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, other relevant field or equivalent experience; Master’s degree and 6+ years of related experience
• Minimum 8 years of related experience or a Master’s degree and 6+ 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
• Understanding and familiarity of Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Nice to Have

• Experience working in an agile environment
• Practical Knowledge of Linux
• Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services
• Experience with open-source software development
• Experience with observability and profiling tools such as Open Telemetry or pprof

Compensation & Benefits

• The base pay for this position is $99,300.00 – $198,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted. Abbott offers comprehensive benefits including HIP PPO medical plan, retirement savings with generous employer contributions, tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit, among others. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to employee diversity.