Senior Go Cloud Engineer - Remote SaaS

Thornton Tomasetti; United States; Remote; USD 87,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Free medical coverage

Excellent retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Education benefits

Global opportunities

Job summary

Abbott seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Cloud to join a Go-based SaaS cloud platform serving 49+ countries. You will design high-volume services, implement secure APIs, and collaborate with InfoSec and data services to drive scalable architectures.

The role supports remote work within the United States and requires strong Go expertise, microservices experience, and a track record delivering scalable systems in Agile teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or related field.
• Minimum 6 years of professional software development experience in an Agile environment, or 4+ years with a master's.
• Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL or similar.
• Software development experience with Go.
• Strong knowledge of idiomatic Go and best practices.
• Good knowledge of concurrency in Go - goroutines, channel patterns, Go ecosystem, and tools and frameworks.
• Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs.
• Practical experience with RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization.
• Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team.
• Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills.
• A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development.
• Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level.

Responsibilities

• Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms.
• Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms.
• Develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global health care platform.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems.
• Design and implement unit testable code that is highly maintainable.
• Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions.
• Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts.
• Provide new ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services team.
• Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
• Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team.
• Build out internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.
• 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.
• Collaborate as an engaged member of an agile team, realizing features through development, test, and delivery.
• Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request.
• Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate.

Skills

Go programming

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Cloud platforms

Agile

Distributed systems

Concurrency in Go

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Confluence

JIRA

PostgreSQL

Job description

Abbott seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Cloud to join a Go-based SaaS cloud platform serving 49+ countries. You will design high-volume services, implement secure APIs, and collaborate with InfoSec and data services to drive scalable architectures.

The role supports remote work within the United States and requires strong Go expertise, microservices experience, and a track record delivering scalable systems in Agile teams.