Senior Engineering Manager – Cloud & DevOps

Abbott • CA

82d • $146,700 - $293,300

About The Position

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 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. A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ or equivalent).
• Knowledge of database scaling strategies.
• Experience with multi-region cloud deployments with enterprise security requirements.
• Knowledge of CI/CD automation and deployment strategies.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and IaC (Terraform or equivalent).
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Strong track record of leading teams and delivering enterprise-grade systems at scale.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

Benefits

• Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan.
• Excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement and FreeU education benefit.
• Recognition as a great place to work in dozens of countries.
• Named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees