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Principal Platform Engineer

Abbott2,605 open roles

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United States Santa Clara Building B SC
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Your applicationOpen nowPrincipal Platform EngineerAbbott · United States Santa Clara Building B SC

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Early applications get read.

8.4% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Abbott postings stay open a median of 28 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 1.8%1 day
  2. 4.0%3 days
  3. 8.4%7 days
  4. 15.4%14 days
  5. 34.1%30 days
This job: posted today

Abbott median: 28 days open

The posting

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

  • 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 a high employer contribution
  • Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
  • A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
  • A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The Principal Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and compliant cloud-native platforms that support digital health, medical software, data, and AI/ML solutions.

This role provides technical leadership across AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, automation, cybersecurity, and software delivery. The successful candidate will establish platform standards, drive engineering excellence, and mentor teams while remaining hands-on with platform design and implementation.

What You’ll Work On

  • Lead architecture, design, implementation, and operation of cloud-native platforms on AWS.
  • Design and operate Kubernetes platforms using Amazon EKS.
  • Define platform standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
  • Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • Implement GitOps and CI/CD practices to automate infrastructure and application delivery.
  • Develop reusable platform services, automation, and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
  • Design secure cloud solutions using modern identity, access control, encryption, and secrets management practices.
  • Partner with Cybersecurity, Privacy, Quality, and Regulatory teams to ensure compliance and audit readiness.
  • Drive reliability, scalability, observability, and operational excellence across platform services.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple teams.
  • Participate in architecture reviews, technical planning, and engineering governance activities.
  • Support development of regulated healthcare and medical software solutions.
  • Comply with FDA regulations, quality processes, cybersecurity standards, and other applicable regulatory requirements.

Skills and Competencies

  • Cloud & Platform EngineeringAWS Amazon EKS Kubernetes Docker Helm Distributed Systems
  • Infrastructure AutomationTerraform Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) GitOps ArgoCD or Flux
  • DevOpsGitHub Enterprise GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipelines Automated Testing Release Automation
  • SecurityAWS IAM OIDC Federation Workload Identity Secrets Management Container Security DevSecOps
  • LeadershipTechnical Strategy Architecture & Design Reviews Cross-Functional Collaboration Mentoring & Coaching Communication & Influencing

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • (16+ Bachelors OR 10+ Master’s Degree) years of experience in cloud architecture and enterprise-scale systems.
  • Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and modern CI/CD practices.
  • Experience designing secure, highly available, scalable distributed systems.
  • Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams and influencing engineering decisions.
  • Proficiency in relevant software and system development tools (e.g., Java, C#, C++, Python, NodeJS).
  • Strong experience with DevOps/CI-CD, containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), IaC (e.g., Terraform), and observability.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in healthcare, digital health, medical device, life sciences, or other regulated industries.
  • Experience supporting AI/ML and data platform workloads.
  • Experience with healthcare interoperability standards such as FHIR, HL7, and DICOM.
  • Experience designing and implementing secure cloud-native platforms.
  • Experience supporting FDA-regulated software development environments.
  • Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, secure software development, and cloud security best practices.
  • Experience supporting compliance initiatives and audits including:ISO 27001 SOC 2 HIPAA / HITECH FedRAMP NIST Cybersecurity Framework
  • AWS, Kubernetes, security, or cloud certifications preferred.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott, and on Twitter @AbbottNews.

The base pay for this position is

$130,700.00 – $261,300.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

DIVISION:

MD Medical Devices

LOCATION:

United States > Santa Clara : Building B - SC

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

United States > Minneapolis : 800 Nicollet Mall

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes, 10 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf

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