Onsite Staff Engineer - HealthTech Platform & Cloud

Becton Dickinson; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Becton Dickinson is seeking a Staff Engineer in Software Engineering to join the Connected Care initiative in Irvine, CA. This on-site role focuses on building scalable platform infrastructure, integrating EHR and cloud applications, and guiding cross-team development.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of healthcare software experience, strong AWS/CDK/Terraform skills, and proven leadership. Expect a fast-paced environment with design reviews, CI/CD, and customer-centric product delivery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building large-scale software applications in healthcare or related field.
• At least 2 years experience in Terraform and/or CDK.
• Must have experience running and supporting production systems on public cloud such as AWS - 2-3yrs.
• Experience in leading engineers, planning and execution of deliverables.
• Experience in designing and building services with AWS is a must.
• Experienced in multiple Cloud PaaS persistence technologies and in-depth knowledge of cloud-based offerings and orchestration technologies (AWS Step Function, Airflow, etc.)
• Experience in designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Experience in Java, React, and JavaScript
• Must have good coding practices, including well-documented code
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, such as SOX, PCI, HIPAA, Data Protection is a plus
• Excellent debugging and optimization skillsExperience in unit/integration testing
• Education and experience required

Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Architect and guide building end-to-end systems optimized for performance, scale, and reliability.
• Work primarily in Go, Java, React, and JavaScript.
• Develop platform SDKs and RESTful APIs
• Plan and lead other engineers to deliver features in a fast paced environment
• Develop, maintain CDK scripts to support provisioning of infrastructure
• Implement CI/CD pipeline for effficent delivery and updates
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, API guides and technical guides
• Understand user experience and product strategy. Ensure the entire stack is designed and built with a customer-centric mindset and able to make appropriate design trade offs.
• Clear communication and written skills to collaborate and influence across teams.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK or Terraform, ensuring reusable constructs, consistent deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code best practices across engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain internal SDKs and developer tooling that abstract AWS service integrations, enabling teams to consume platform capabilities (e.g., S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS) reliably and efficiently.
• Own the reliability, security, and observability of AWS environments by managing IAM policies, VPC configurations, CloudWatch monitoring, and cost optimization across multi-account or multi-region setups.

Skills

Go

Java

React

JavaScript

Leadership

RESTful APIs

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/IS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CDK

AWS

Job description

Becton Dickinson is seeking a Staff Engineer in Software Engineering to join the Connected Care initiative in Irvine, CA. This on-site role focuses on building scalable platform infrastructure, integrating EHR and cloud applications, and guiding cross-team development.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of healthcare software experience, strong AWS/CDK/Terraform skills, and proven leadership. Expect a fast-paced environment with design reviews, CI/CD, and customer-centric product delivery.