Abridge
Healthcare
StaffPlatformEngineer
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“Staff Platform Engineer at Abridge. Skills: Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code. Design, build, and evolve cloud infrastructure platforms. Lead architecture and operational evolution of multi-tenant infrastructure”
What You'll Achieve.
Maximize engineering velocity; Maximize reliability; Maximize scalability; Maximize security; Operate under tremendous growth; Operate under regulatory requirements; Take platform capabilities from 0 to 1; Scale platform capabilities across the company; Help providers quickly trust and verify AI output; Improve clinical documentation efficiencies; Enable clinicians to focus on patients; Transform patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes; Set industry standards for responsible AI deployment
Industry & Context.
Systems Thinking
Rotational on-call schedule
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of software and infrastructure engineering experience, significant experience operating infrastructure-as-code platforms in cloud-first organizations, Experience designing and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms, scaling compute services, Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD systems, Experience building scalable infrastructure-as-code platforms using Terraform, Experience with monitoring and observability tooling and practices, Comfortable implementing and securing services in Google Cloud Platform, Experience designing secure-by-default infrastructure, operational instincts and experience debugging complex distributed systems, leading incident response efforts, improving reliability through automation and observability, Experience balancing developer experience, platform governance, operational reliability, and organizational scalability, Experience with backend languages, Up-to-date on industry best practices and tools, Excited about being hands-on while also driving platform direction, architecture decisions, and operational maturity, Willing to pitch in wherever needed, Demonstrates curiosity and a proactive interest in AI, actively exploring and applying emerging technologies, rotational on-call schedule
Nice to Have
experience with related cloud-native technologies including ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Istio, etc., Deep understanding of Kubernetes platform architecture and operations, workload isolation, autoscaling, networking, service mesh management, ingress patterns, observability, upgrades, multi-tenant cluster design, Terragrunt, Atlas, ArgoCD, Octopus Deploy, Travis CI, etc., modular architectures, remote state management, policy enforcement, deployment orchestration, reusable infrastructure patterns, Grafana, Datadog, Honeycomb, etc., GCP Projects, VPC Networks, Google Kubernetes Engine, IAM Roles, Groups, policies, secure networking patterns, least-privilege access controls, workload identity, network segmentation, secret management, auditability, compliance-oriented platform controls, Python, GoLang, Node, Rust, learning new things, supportive environment, fast-moving startup, people who want to learn new things
What You'll Do.
and evolve cloud infrastructure platforms
Lead architecture and operational evolution of multi-tenant infrastructure
Design and implement build pipelines and workflows
and scale secure-by-default cloud infrastructure practices
Build reusable infrastructure abstractions and modules
and adopt fast application testing pipelines
Drive improvements in observability and operational readiness
Bridge the gap between local development and production environments
Influence infrastructure cost and capacity strategy
and train engineering team
Be a public evangelist for Abridge
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with engineering, security, and compliance teams
Full Job Description
ABOUT ABRIDGE Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper understanding in healthcare. Our AI-powered platform was purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most—their patients. Our enterprise-grade technology transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time, with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and our purpose-built, auditable AI, we are the only company that maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, we are setting the industry standards for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems. We are a growing team of practicing MDs, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to empower people and make care make more sense. We have offices located in the Mission District in San Francisco, the SoHo neighborhood of New York, and East Liberty in Pittsburgh. THE ROLE Abridge’s services and engineering teams are in hyperscale mode. We are looking for experienced Staff Platform Engineers to join our team and help scale our cloud infrastructure, developer platform, and operational maturity in kind. You’ll work on a centralized Platform team whose work spans platform architecture, developer enablement, infrastructure reliability, adoption, and ongoing support of existing tooling and software. This role is approximately 80% infrastructure focused and 20% application software focused. You will help us evolve our infrastructure stack into a scalable multi-tenant and multi-cloud platform, drive secure-by-default cloud infrastructure practices, build and manage modular Terraform platforms, and help define the long-term architecture and operational standards for infrastructure running in production at scale. You’ll also help shape and integrate developer platform capabi
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