Staff Software Engineer

Abbott • Pleasanton, CA

1d

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. The Staff Cloud Software Engineer role focuses on building and evolving cloud-native, Java and Spring Boot–based microservices running on Microsoft Azure. The platform is a mission-critical SaaS healthcare system, designed for scale, security, and regulatory compliance. You will contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of distributed systems deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), integrating with Azure Service Bus, Azure Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, and Azure API Management (APIM). The role emphasizes strong architectural ownership, deep technical expertise, and leadership in production-grade cloud services.

Requirements

• Strong, hands‑on experience with Java and Spring Boot microservices
• Proven experience designing and operating systems on Microsoft Azure
• Production experience with: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Service Bus for asynchronous and message‑driven processing
• Azure Cosmos DB
• PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, and transactional consistency
• Azure API Management (APIM)
• Strong understanding of relational data modeling and trade‑offs between relational and NoSQL data stores
• Experience with Java concurrency and asynchronous execution models
• Proven ability to design highly available, scalable distributed systems
• Experience with database access frameworks (e.g., JPA/Hibernate, Spring Data, or similar)
• Familiarity with observability and production operations (logging, metrics, tracing, health probes)
• Strong experience with automated testing, TDD, and CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable working in Agile / Scrum environments
• Practical knowledge of Linux, containerization, and Kubernetes fundamentals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated technical leadership, ownership, and mentoring capabilities

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Spring Cloud, resilience patterns, and service‑to‑service communication
• Experience running PostgreSQL in cloud-managed environments or integrating with Azure-hosted PostgreSQL solutions
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and Azure deployment pipelines
• Experience in regulated domains (healthcare, finance, or similar)
• Prior staff‑ or principal‑level influence on architecture and platform strategy

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Java and Spring Boot microservices deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Build and evolve cloud‑native services following best practices for scalability, resiliency, security, and observability
• Develop high‑volume, low‑latency distributed systems for a global healthcare SaaS platform
• Design and integrate RESTful APIs exposed through Azure API Management (APIM)
• Implement event‑driven and asynchronous workflows using Azure Service Bus (queues, topics, subscriptions)
• Design, implement, and operate data access layers using: Azure Cosmos DB for globally distributed, scalable data workloads
• PostgreSQL for relational, transactional, and consistency‑critical use cases
• Collaborate with Architecture, Platform, and InfoSec teams to deliver secure, compliant Azure-native solutions
• Define and evolve API contracts, schemas, and service interaction patterns
• Ensure systems meet high standards for performance, uptime, resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery
• Contribute meaningfully to microservices, data, and cloud architecture decisions
• Build internal tooling and platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and operational excellence
• Lead modernization efforts to align legacy services with cloud‑native and Kubernetes best practices
• Produce high‑quality architecture documentation, including diagrams and data flow models
• Participate fully in Agile delivery, from technical planning through release and operational support
• Lead and perform technical design reviews and peer code reviews
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across teams
• Stay current with developments in Java, Spring Boot, Azure services, Kubernetes, and distributed systems
• Support company initiatives and comply with FDA and other applicable global regulatory requirements

Benefits

• 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.
• Health and wellness benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees