[Remote] Engineering Manager, Cloud Software Platform Practice

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Abbott is a global healthcare leader developing life-changing technologies, including diabetes management products that provide accurate data for better-informed decisions. The Engineering Manager, Cloud Software Platform Practice leads and develops a team building cloud services, APIs, medical data platforms, messaging, and event-streaming capabilities. The role drives reliable, secure, scalable platform solutions while balancing delivery, team growth, and long-term platform sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of cloud software engineers by providing coaching, mentoring, feedback, and growth opportunities aligned with organizational objectives
• Model team-first leadership by empowering engineers to lead initiatives, recognizing contributions, and fostering accountability for team outcomes
• Create an inclusive and psychologically safe environment that encourages collaboration, continuous learning, innovation, and respectful challenge
• Collaborate with the practice to support hiring, onboarding, succession planning, and knowledge-sharing activities that strengthen organizational capability
• Learn and improve our existing Go-based healthcare platforms
• Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms
• Develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global healthcare platform
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems
• Collaborate directly with Information Security teams to design and implement secure solutions
• Ensure platform performance, scalability, reliability, and uptime while maintaining high standards of engineering quality
• Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with Architecture and Platform leadership
• Support delivery commitments by identifying capacity constraints, risks, dependencies, and execution challenges, while communicating progress and tradeoffs to stakeholders
• Partner with technical product owners and business stakeholders to align priorities, remove barriers, and ensure successful delivery of platform capabilities
• Balance near-term delivery goals with long-term platform sustainability through investments in quality, security, observability, operability, performance, and technical debt reduction
• Encourage pragmatic experimentation and innovation by evaluating new ideas based on customer needs, technical evidence, risk, and expected value
• Build trusted relationships across Product, Security, Quality, Regulatory, and other business and technology teams
• Lead technical planning, design reviews, and engineering best practices across the Cloud Software Platform Practice
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, making recommendations that support innovation and business objectives
• Support company initiatives and comply with FDA and other applicable global regulatory requirements

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, other relevant field or equivalent experience
• Minimum 8 years of related experience or a Master's degree and 6+ years of related experience
• A leadership approach grounded in humility, curiosity, accountability, and service to the team
• Experience supporting engineers who work across multiple product teams, programs, or matrixed organizational structures
• Software engineering experience with cloud-based or distributed systems and sufficient technical fluency to understand context, ask effective questions, and participate credibly in architecture, risk, and delivery discussions
• Ability to coach engineers in problem-solving, judgment, and professional growth while fostering a shared mentoring model in which Principal, Staff, Senior, and other engineers contribute their technical expertise
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs
• 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
• Experience translating business and product goals into engineering priorities, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes
• Ability to balance delivery speed with reliability, security, quality, maintainability, and long-term platform health
• Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team
• Strong written, verbal, and listening skills, including the ability to communicate technical choices, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development
• Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)
• Experience leading teams that build production software in Go or another modern cloud-native language
• Experience with public-cloud platforms and managed database, messaging, event-streaming, API, and service technologies
• Experience treating an internal platform as a product, with a focus on developer experience, adoption, reliability, and measurable value
• Experience with agile product development and modern software engineering practices, including automated testing, continuous delivery, observability, and secure development
• Experience in digital health, medical devices, or another regulated industry
• Experience developing software products subject to FDA or comparable regulatory requirements

Benefits

• 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
• FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• This position can work out remotely within the U.S.

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