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Abbott · 3 months ago

Senior Engineering Manager – Cloud & DevOps

United States - California - Alameda

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$147K/yr - $293K/yr

10+ years exp

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team in Backend Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure/DevOps, providing architectural direction and ensuring delivery at scale. This role involves strategic leadership and hands-on technical guidance to shape a groundbreaking health platform.

BiotechnologyEmergency MedicineGeneticsHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedicalMedical DeviceNutritionPharmaceutical

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead a growing team of backend engineers and DevOps specialists, balancing coaching, technical guidance, and delivery oversight

Maintain a 'hands-on' presence (~20%) to review architectures, debug critical issues, and validate technical approaches

Direct the design and delivery of distributed microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, and event-driven systems

Ensure enterprise-grade code quality, secure coding practices, and scalable design patterns (DDD, reactive programming)

Drive performance optimization, ensuring p95/p99 latency targets are consistently met

Define standards for Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes orchestration (multi-region, HA clusters), and service meshes

Oversee CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary), leveraging modern toolchains

Ensure observability and performance monitoring across the stack (metrics, logging, tracing)

Partner with Security to ensure compliance with enterprise and regulatory standards

Partner with Product, Data, and Security leaders to shape platform roadmaps

Identify capability gaps, lead architectural reviews, and drive build vs. buy decisions

Balance scalability, reliability, security, and cost optimization across cloud deployments

Qualification

JavaSpring BootCloud InfrastructureDevOpsMicroservices ArchitectureKubernetesCI/CD AutomationEvent-driven SystemsStakeholder CommunicationTechnical Leadership

Required

10+ years combined experience in backend engineering (Java/Spring Boot) and cloud infrastructure/DevOps

4+ years in technical leadership or engineering management roles

Proven success in implementing: Distributed microservices architectures, Event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ or equivalent), Database scaling strategies, Multi-region cloud deployments with enterprise security requirements

Knowledge of: CI/CD automation and deployment strategies, Kubernetes and IaC (Terraform or equivalent), Observability, monitoring, and performance tuning

Strong track record of leading teams and delivering enterprise-grade systems at scale

Preferred

Background in digital health, IoT, or other regulated industries (HIPAA, GDPR)

Familiarity with distributed analytics platforms (Databricks, Spark)

Experience defining SLAs/SLOs and leading capacity planning for high-throughput workloads

Strong stakeholder communication skills; ability to present technical strategy to executives and cross-functional partners

Benefits

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.

Company

Abbott

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Abbott is a healthcare company that produces diagnostic kits, medical devices, nutritional products, and branded generic medicines.

Founded in 1888

Illinois City, Illinois, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.abbott.com

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