Software Engineer, Cloud

Job ID: 31144083Company: Abbott LaboratoriesLocation: Abbott Park, Illinois, United StatesEmployment type: full timeCategory: Research & DevelopmentIndustry: HealthcarePosted: 2026-10-23

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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   Software Engineer, Cloud position can work out remotely within the U.S .

The Software Engineer, Cloud will work with a modern technology stack on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, leveraging internal and external APIs to support a large-scale system that processes billions of messages daily and serves users in over 25 countries. This role plays a key part in advancing solutions that improve the health and well-being of users worldwide.

The ideal candidate brings a strong passion for software engineering, a commitment to continuous learning, and the versatility to thrive in a dynamic environment. This individual should also demonstrate leadership potential and a desire to help shape the direction of the team.

In this role, the Software Engineer, Cloud will contribute to the design and development of scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud-based solutions for a medical device SaaS platform.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON 

• Design and implement   services   and components   utilizing   Go   for cloud-based platforms  

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to   develop and integrate with   APIs that   em power   users   to share and   utilize   their medical data in partner systems  

• Design and implement high-quality, scalable, and maintainable systems by developing robust, testable code and ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and uptime

• Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle for Cloud solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance collaboratively with Software Engineering

• 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  

• Build and manage internal tooling, APIs, and production systems, driving automation across build, release, and configuration processes to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

• Support company initiatives and complies with regulatory requirements by FDA and other relevant global

REQUIRED 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.

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and e xperience   with software development  

• Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level ​​

• ​ Experience with Git   for source control on a collaborative project  

• Understands Object Oriented Programming and design   and building modular unit testable code  

• Understands the principles of   designing, implementing, and   maintaining   highly complex   asynchronous   messaging and   backend processing jobs  

• Understand s   the concepts of Docker   Containers   and container orchestration services such as Docker Swarm , ECS,   and   Kubernetes .  

• Excellent written ,   verbal   and listening   communication skills  

• Experience working in an agile environment.  

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PREFFERED

• E xperience with open-source, software   development   and system engineering.

• Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed tea m

• Practical Knowledge of Linux

• Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and   microservices  

• Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are   highly available   and easy to   maintain   and monitor  

• Understanding and familiarity of   Test Driven   Development  ( TDD ) 

• Experience working with relational datastores such as   SQL Server,   Postgresql ,   or   MySql  

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:

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.

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The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $156,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.]]><