Staff Software Engineer, Abridge
Scaling AI Systems
$228-290k
+ equity
Powering deeper understanding in healthcare through purpose-built AI
Be an early applicant
Powering deeper understanding in healthcare through purpose-built AI
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$228-290k
+ equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To power a deeper understanding in healthcare.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software engineering experience focused on distributed systems or tooling, with an interest in engineering enablement and software scaling
- 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
- Must be willing to travel up to 10%
What the job involves
- 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 opportunities to leverage creativity, autonomy, and leadership to take things 0 to 1. This is a unique opportunity in the industry to rapidly grow your career in a rapidly growing company leveraging the best of emerging technologies
- 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
- Abridge typically hosts a three-day builder team retreat every 3-6 months. These retreats often feature internal hackathons, collaborative project sessions, and social events that allow the team to connect in person
Our take
Summarising key elements of healthcare conversations is crucial for both physicians and patients. Medical scribes, though effective, are costly, and the healthcare system faces funding and staffing crises. This has created a demand for more efficient notetaking solutions.
This is where Abridge comes in; it has developed a HIPAA-compliant AI platform that transcribes, structures, summarises, and provides insights from audio or transcripts of medical conversations. It claims to work across all specialities and offers patient-friendly summaries in easy-to-understand language.
Abridge aims to alleviate pressure on the healthcare system from the patient's perspective, a unique approach among healthtech startups. While companies like Inovia, DOUB, and DeepScribe focus on assisting physicians with medical transcription AI, they lack Abridge's patient-centric features, which are valuable in enhancing the patient experience. Its unique focus, then, is part of the reason why it enjoyed two impressive rounds of funding in 2025 alone.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2025
$300m
SERIES E
Feb 2025
$250m
SERIES D
Total funding: $757.5m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO, plus 12 national holidays
- 16 weeks paid parental leave, for all employees
- Flexible working hours — we care more about what you accomplish than what specific hours you’re working
- Remote work environment
- Equity for all new employees
- Generous equipment budget for your home office setup ($1600)
- Opportunity to work and grow with talented individuals, and have ownership and impact at a high growth startup
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Shivdev Rao
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside their work as a practising Cardiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, they also served as Physician Advisor in Residence and ultimately EVP at UPMC Enterprises; co-founded DocDok; and worked as a co-architect on a healthcare project at the Kauffman Foundation.
Sandeep Konam
(Co-Founder & CTO)Completed an MS in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon, then served as Senior Product Manager at UPMC Enterprises. Has delivered guest lectures at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and the University of Pittsburgh.
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