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Senior Software Engineer, Cloud

Abbott · Abbott Park, IL · $86,700–$173,300 a year · Full time

Posted Apr 29, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Our products give people with diabetes glucose data they make decisions on. How does that change how you design and test cloud services?

What they are checking: Whether they connect reliability and data accuracy to patient safety, not just uptime numbers.

Tell me about a production outage you were involved in. What did you learn?

What they are checking: Whether they own incidents, find root causes and improve systems after failures.

Tell me about a time you mentored another engineer through a hard technical problem.

What they are checking: Whether they help others grow, which is expected at a senior level.

What would you do

How do you work within a regulated medical software process without slowing the team down?

What they are checking: Whether they can respect design controls and documentation while still shipping steadily.

Product wants a feature fast, but you see a risk in how it handles patient data. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they raise safety and data concerns clearly and propose a path forward.

About the work

Walk me through how you would design a cloud service that ingests readings from a very large number of connected sensors.

What they are checking: Whether they can reason about scale, ingestion, storage and failure handling for device data.

How do you make sure health data is secure and private in a cloud system?

What they are checking: Whether they think about encryption, access control and auditing as part of design rather than an afterthought.

A device uploads data late or out of order. How should the backend handle that?

What they are checking: Whether they think carefully about data consistency for time-series health data.

How do you decide between building something yourself and using a managed cloud service?

What they are checking: Their judgment about cost, control and maintenance burden.

What does good observability look like for a service like this?

What they are checking: Whether they know how to see problems before users report them through logging, metrics and alerts.

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The full job description

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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology. Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to: • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. • Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year • An excellent retirement savings plan with 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. • A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. • A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. THE OPPORTUNITY This Senior Software Engineer, Cloud position can work out remotely within the U.S . The Senior Software Engineer, Cloud will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 49 countries. The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day. Senior Software Engineer, Cloud will have strong leadership ability and bring a passion for software engineering to help shape the direction of the team. We highly value versatility and a continuous learning mindset, along with the ability to empower fellow team members. You will contribute to building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS. WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON • Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms. • Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms. • Developing high-volume, low-latency services for a global health care platform • Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems. • Design and implement unit testable code that is highly maintainable. • Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions. • Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts. • Provide new ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services team. • Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design. • Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team • Build out internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer. • Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals. • Create diagrams, flowcharts and models that illustrate the internal design and workflow of solution components. • Collaborate as an engaged member of an agile team, realizing features through development, test, and delivery. • Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request • Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate. QUALIFICATIONS • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering Mathematics, or related field • Minimum 6 years of professional software development experience in an Agile environment, including time spent in technical residency programs, or master's degree with 4+ years of related experience • Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, Postgres or similar. • Software development experience with Go. Strong knowledge of idiomatic Go and best practices. Good knowledge of concurrency in Go - goroutines, channel patterns, Go ecosystem, and tools and frameworks. • Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor. • Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs. • Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices. • Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization. • Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team • Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills • A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives. • Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development • Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level. PREFFERED • Practical Knowledge of Linux • Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services • Experience with open-source software development • Experience working with relational datastores such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL. • Experience working with Confluence and JIRA. #software Apply Now Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal The base pay for this position is $86,700.00 – $173,300.00 In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted. JOB FAMILY: Product Development DIVISION: ADC Diabetes Care LOCATION: United States of America : Remote ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: WORK SHIFT: Standard TRAVEL: Yes, 5 % of the Time MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday) Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf

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