Abridge
Healthcare
StaffSoftwareEngineer,ScalingAISystems
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“Staff Software Engineer, Scaling AI Systems at Abridge. Skills: Distributed systems, AI systems scaling, Cloud infrastructure, Engineering enablement. Leverage load testing. Identify performance bottlenecks”
What You'll Achieve.
Improve performance multiples; Improve stability multiples; Improve scalability multiples
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
10% travel, Team retreat
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years software engineering experience, Backend engineer experience, Experience reducing latency, Experience building on Kubernetes, Experience implementing and securing services in GCP, Experience building software with backend languages, Experience monitoring distributed systems
Nice to Have
GCP experience, Kubernetes experience
What You'll Do.
Leverage load testing
Identify performance bottlenecks
Make changes to application code
Drive software changes
Rehome applications onto new infrastructure
Enable multi-tenant deployments
Identify software configuration changes
Implement performance tuning parameters
Build developer tools
Build software modules
Develop internal developer platform elements
Adopt internal developer platform elements
Establish error budgets
Drive metrics for application health
Improve observability
Improve incident response muscle
Train engineering team
Uplevel on cloud native design
Be a public evangelist
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Diverse teams; Application teams; Platform team
Communication Scope
Technical documentation
Process & Methodology
Agile
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 team are in hyperscale mode. We are looking for experienced software engineers to join our team and help improve the performance, stability, and scalability of our software by multiples. This is a distributed systems oriented role and is approximately 80% software focused and 20% cloud infrastructure focused. You will help us build load testing and chaos engineering into our development cycle, leverage observability and profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks and resolve them, work with diverse teams to help rehome their applications onto more scalable platforms, and ensure a smooth ride as we hyperscale our application adoption in the healthcare space. You may be embedded with application teams for weeks or months. The platform we are building needs to maximize both engineering velocity and security, will be under tremendous scale, and presents many op
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