Abridge · 2 weeks ago
Senior Software Engineer, SRE
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$211K/yr - $248K/yr
8+ years expAbridge is a company focused on transforming healthcare delivery experiences with AI-powered technology. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, SRE to enhance the performance, stability, and scalability of their software systems, while working in a collaborative environment to drive engineering excellence.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Health CareIntelligent SystemsMachine LearningMedical
Responsibilities
Leverage load testing, chaos engineering, and other test practices to identify performance and latency bottlenecks across all of our systems, and make changes to application code to resolve them
Drive software changes that can rehome applications at the code level onto new infrastructure (run times, event driven infrastructure, databases, and more) in order to dramatically improve scalability as well as enable multi-tenant deployments
Identify and implement software configuration changes and performance tuning parameters that will dramatically improve performance and scalability
Build developer tools and software modules that help engineers build code faster and more effectively with more enablements to the entire engineering organization
Work with the Platform team to develop, and application teams to adopt, emerging elements of our internal developer platform, such as service templates and self-serve infrastructure
Work with application teams to establish and adopt SLOs and error budgets, and drive better metrics for application health that can drive automated canary releases, improved health monitoring, and better engineering practices
Uplevel our ability to respond to incidents by improving observability, runbooks, and incident response muscle across the organization
Evangelize, document, and train the engineering team on the solutions being built and uplevel them on cloud native design strategies and tools
Be a public evangelist for Abridge in the global platform engineering community, including conferences, open source, and research as we pioneer new AI-first cloud-native-first security-first implementations at scale
Qualification
Required
8+ years of software engineering experience focused on distributed systems or tooling, with an interest in engineering enablement and software scaling
At least 2 years experience as a back-end engineer focused on system performance and scalability
Experience reducing latency in software by multiples through leveraging observability and profiling tools and deriving great pleasure from doing so
Experience building on Kubernetes and scaling compute services on Kubernetes; experience with related cloud native technologies including ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Istio, etc
Comfortable implementing and securing services in Google Cloud Platform with Infrastructure as Code, including GCP Projects, VPC Networks, Google Kubernetes Engine, and IAM Roles, Groups and policies. Candidates without GCP experience but who have experience with Kubernetes are encouraged to apply
Experience building software with backend languages (e.g. Python, GoLang, Node, and Rust)
Experience monitoring distributed systems with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry Collector, and Grafana (or something similar), including metrics collection, visualization, alerting, and using observability data to drive performance optimizations
Passion for engineering enablement and solving software and distributed systems scaling challenges under pressure
Benefits
Generous Time Off: 14 paid holidays, flexible PTO for salaried employees, and accrued time off for hourly employees
Comprehensive Health Plans: Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for all full-time employees and their families.
Generous HSA Contribution: If you choose a High Deductible Health Plan, Abridge makes monthly contributions to your HSA.
Paid Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave for all full-time employees.
Family Forming Benefits: Resources and financial support to help you build your family.
401(k) Matching: Contribution matching to help invest in your future.
Personal Device Allowance: Tax free funds for personal device usage.
Pre-tax Benefits: Access to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Commuter Benefits.
Lifestyle Wallet: Monthly contributions for fitness, professional development, coworking, and more.
Mental Health Support: Dedicated access to therapy and coaching to help you reach your goals.
Sabbatical Leave: Paid Sabbatical Leave after 5 years of employment.
Compensation and Equity: Competitive compensation and equity grants for full time employees.
Company
Abridge
Abridge is an AI-driven platform that transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes for healthcare industries.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$757.5MKey Investors
Spark CapitalIKS HealthWittington Ventures
2025-06-24Series E· $300M
2025-02-17Series D· $250M
2024-02-23Series C· $150M
Leadership Team
Jonathan Lydon
VP People
Recent News
MedCity News
2026-01-07
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