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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer, Cloud - **Company:** Abbott Laboratories - **Location:** Green Oaks, IL, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $86,700.0 - $173,300.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Confluence, JIRA, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Code Review, Cyber Security, Databases, Data as a Services, Data Architecture, Data Stores, Linux, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Message Oriented Middleware, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System, Concurrency, Backend, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Free and Open-Source Software, Restful APIs, Api Management, Docker, Microservices - **Published:** September 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://abbott.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/abbottcareers/job/United-States---Illinois---Abbott-Park/Senior-Software-Engineer--Cloud_31161996-1 ## About the Role * 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 * Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, Postgres 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 and understanding of working with and developing 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. PREFFERED * Practical Knowledge of Linux * Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services * Experience with open-source software development * Experience working with relational datastores such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL. * Experience working with Confluence and JIRA. ## Description 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., The Senior Software Engineer, Cloud will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 49 countries. The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day. Senior Software Engineer, Cloud will have strong leadership ability and bring a passion for software engineering to help shape the direction of the team. We highly value versatility and a continuous learning mindset, along with the ability to empower fellow team members. You will contribute to building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS. WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON * Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms. * Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms. * Developing 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. ## Related Videos - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) - [Docker exec without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1094-docker-exec-without-docker) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [How Much FAANG Companies Actually Pay Software Engineers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/230-how-much-faang-companies-actually-pay-software-engineers-in-2025) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs)