Software Engineer, Platform

• Ways of Working:
  Set Schedule - This job will be onsite weekly, the percentage of onsite work will be defined by the leader.
• Employee Type:
  Employee
• Min. Salary Region 1: 223900 USD
• Global Job Level (HCM):
  Professional 5 (13)
• Min. Salary Region 2: 190300 USD

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive
. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care
, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion
—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare
, you’ll find your purpose here.

Primary Function of Position

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build backend services and APIs that support our robotic platforms and associated application workflows. The successful candidate will design and build services and APIs that are scalable, testable, maintainable, and easy to integrate with internal and external systems. This role will also provide technical leadership across service design, architecture, and engineering practices.

• Design, build, test, and operate backend services and APIs that support our robotic platforms and associated application workflows.
• Architect and develop service capabilities such as remote configuration management, software updates, service workflows, and telemetry data ingestion.
• Implement comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end testing within CI pipelines.
• Drive CI/CD, observability, and operational practices that support small, frequent, and high-confidence releases.

• Ensure services and APIs include first-class documentation, health endpoints, and uptime monitoring.
• Partner with embedded, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver solutions that are useful and broadly adoptable.
• Collaborate with security and quality teams to ensure solutions meet compliance and operational requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, helping guide architecture, implementation, and engineering best practices.

• Strong experience building backend services and APIs in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, or similar.
• Strong experience designing REST or GRPC APIs with clear contracts, documentation, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Strong experience with relational databases such as Postgres, service-side data modeling, and transactional system design.
• Strong experience with automated testing, Gitlab CI/CD, and AWS-based deployment practices for backend services.
• Strong experience with containerized deployment and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, or Amazon EKS.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concerns such as reliability, failure handling, observability, and operational support.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Minimum of 8 years relevant experience in software engineering, including backend services or API development.
• Working Conditions:
  
  None

• Experience working with medical devices or other regulated industries.
• Experience with defining and implementing data privacy requirements.

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination…