Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to :

Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our San Diego, CA (Near UHC) location in the Infectious Diseases Business Unit at Abbott Rapid Diagnostics. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

What You Will Do

The Sr. Staff Cloud Software Engineer role requires enhancing a SaaS cloud platform aimed at improving global health outcomes. Responsibilities include coordinating issue resolutions and mentoring junior engineers cloud platforms. Contribute to product improvements, design and implement cloud-based services and provide technical expertise to shape solutions while staying updated on emerging trends to drive innovation. Leadership, versatility, continuous learning, and a strong passion for software engineering are key qualities for success in this role.

Be the first line of defense in coordinating and prioritizing timely resolutions with engineering and solution engineering teams.
Communicate product issues to development and advocate for the customer
Create knowledge-based content such as troubleshooting articles and best practices.
Provide continuous ideas to improve our product.
You will bring solutions to the leadership team, feedback on solutions recommended.
Learn and improve our existing health care platforms
Design and implement services and components utilizing Python, React, T-SQL for cloud-based platforms
Developing 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
Lead effort estimation by working together with development, testing, cybersecurity and quality to provide technical implementation assumptions for the requested features.
Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate/
Supports company initiatives and complies with regulatory requirements by FDA and other relevant global regulatory agencies.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering Mathematics, or related field
Minimum 10+ years of experience, or Master’s Degree with 7+ years of related experience, or Ph.D. with 2+ years of related experience
Hands-on experience with Azure AD\Entra ID or similar identity platforms such as Okta\Identity Serve and etc.
Experience with CI\CD technologies such as Azure DevOps\Jenkins.
Experience with REST API’s technologies such as FastAPI\ASP.NET Core Web API.
Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud Services such as Powe BI; Azure Synapse; Kubernetes service, App Service, Azure Function, App Gateway, Azure Blob Storage, Log Analytics, Azure Key Vault, Azure Data Factory, API Gateway, Event Hub.
Experience working within a Linux environment
Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, Azure Synapse or similar

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred team leadership experience and demonstrated mentorship capabilities

Apply Now

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives : www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $128,000.00 – $256,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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