Senior Platform Engineer

About the role

Abridge’s services and engineering teams are in hyperscale mode. We are looking for experienced Platform Engineers to join our team and help scale all of our cloud infrastructure and developer experience in kind.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale cloud infrastructure including networking, IAM, Kubernetes, databases, streaming and pubsub platforms, storage, distribution, and more.
• Design and implement build pipelines, branching strategies, and release management tooling that will serve an engineering team that is doubling in size and massively growing the volume of code that is being shipped and that must be tested.
• Design, implement, and scale cloud security practices including CI and deployment scans, least privileged access controls, auditing, and maintaining SoC2 and HIPAA compliance.
• Help advocate for, design, implement, and adopt fast and scalable application testing pipelines including end to end UI tests as well as hyperscale load tests.
• Uplevel our ability to respond to incidents by improving observability, runbooks, and incident response muscle across the organization.
• Bridge the gap between local development and production environments in a way that is seamless for engineers and maximizes engineering velocity and security while minimizing quality issues arising from environment drift and configuration tangles.
• 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.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years of infrastructure-as-code experience in a cloud-first organization.
• Experience building on Kubernetes and scaling compute services on Kubernetes; experience with related cloud native technologies including ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Istio, etc.
• Familiar with the care+feeding of Kubernetes clusters, including version upgrades, service mesh management, and maintaining helm charts for application deployments.
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for both Infrastructure as code deployments as well as application code deployments. (Terragrunt, Atlas, ArgoCD, Octopus Deploy, Travis CI, etc.)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling and practices (metrics, logs, traces) and their management at scale. Experience with major obs platforms eg Grafana, Datadog, Honeycomb.
• Experience with major obs platforms eg Grafana, Datadog, Honeycomb.
• Experience with backend languages (e.g. Python, GoLang, Node, Rust).
• Up-to-date on industry best-practices and tools, and enjoy learning new things.
• Excited about being hands-on in a fast-moving, productive, and supportive environment.
• Willing to pitch in wherever needed - as a fast-moving startup we need to do good work, quickly.

Qualifications

• Must be willing to travel up to 10%.
• 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.

Benefits

Compensation Range: $178.5K - $248K

At Abridge, we are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• 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.

We provide reasonable accommodations throughout the interview process. If you need reasonable accommodation in applying, interviewing, completing any assessment or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please contact us at accommodations@abridge.com