Abridge

Healthcare

StaffSoftwareEngineer,ScalingAISystems

$228–290k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Staff Software Engineer, Scaling AI Systems at Abridge. Skills: Distributed systems, AI systems, Scalability, Engineering enablement. Leverage load testing. Identify performance bottlenecks”

Industry & Context.

Healthcare
Problems you'll solve

Identify performance bottlenecks; Resolve performance bottlenecks; Solve scaling challenges

Eligibility Requirements

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 with GCP, Experience building software with backend languages

Nice to Have

GCP experience preferred, Experience with Kubernetes encouraged

What You'll Do.

Leverage load testing

Identify performance bottlenecks

Resolve performance bottlenecks

Drive software changes

Enable multi-tenant deployments

Identify configuration changes

Implement performance tuning

Build developer tools

Build software modules

Develop internal developer platform

Adopt internal developer platform

Establish error budgets

Drive metrics for application health

Improve observability

Improve incident response muscle

Train engineering team

Pioneer AI-first implementations

Pioneer cloud-native-first implementations

Pioneer security-first implementations

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Diverse teams; Application teams; Platform team

Communication Scope

Public evangelist

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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