Platform Engineer — Cloud & Infra Leader

Location

SF Office; NYC Office

Full time

Hybrid

Builder Infrastructure Engineering

• Base Salary $228K – $290K
  • Offers Equity

Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range listed reflects the pay scale estimated for candidates residing in the San Francisco and New York City metro areas. Actual base salary will be dependent on location, relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and/or other job‑related factors. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible to participate in a company stock option plan.

Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper understanding in healthcare. Our AI‑powered platform was purpose‑built for medical conversations, improving clinical documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most—their patients.

Our enterprise‑grade technology transforms patient‑clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real‑time, with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and our purpose‑built, auditable AI, we are the only company that maps AI‑generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, we are setting the industry standards for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems.

We are a growing team of practicing MDs, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to empower people and make care make more sense. We have offices located in the Mission District in San Francisco, the SoHo neighborhood of New York, and East Liberty in Pittsburgh.

Abridge’s services and engineering teams are in hyperscale mode. We are looking for experienced Staff Platform Engineers to join our team and help scale our cloud infrastructure, developer platform, and operational maturity in kind. You’ll work on a centralized Platform team whose work spans platform architecture, developer enablement, infrastructure reliability, adoption, and ongoing support of existing tooling and software. This role is approximately 80% infrastructure focused and 20% application software focused.

You will help us evolve our infrastructure stack into a scalable multi‑tenant and multi‑cloud platform, drive secure‑by‑default cloud infrastructure practices, build and manage modular Terraform platforms, and help define the long‑term architecture and operational standards for infrastructure running in production ’ll also help shape and integrate developer platform capabilities including service templates, canary releases, feature flagging, load testing, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and self‑service infrastructure workflows.

The platform we are building needs to maximize engineering velocity, reliability, scalability, and security while operating under tremendous growth and regulatory requirements. This role presents opportunities to leverage deep technical expertise, systems thinking, autonomy, and organizational leadership to take platform capabilities from 0 to 1 and scale them across the company. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of AI‑first, cloud‑native, security‑first infrastructure at scale.

• Design, build, and evolve cloud infrastructure platforms including networking, IAM, Kubernetes, databases, streaming and pubsub platforms, storage, distribution, observability, and more.

• Lead the architecture and operational evolution of multi‑tenant, multi‑region, and multi‑cloud infrastructure with strong reliability, scalability, and security boundaries.

• Design and implement build pipelines, branching strategies, release management tooling, and self‑service platform workflows that will serve an engineering organization that is rapidly growing in both size and operational complexity.

• Design, implement, and scale secure‑by‑default cloud infrastructure practices including CI and deployment scans, least‑privileged access controls, auditing, policy enforcement, and maintaining SoC2 and HIPAA compliance.

• Build reusable infrastructure abstractions, Terraform modules, golden paths, and developer platform…