# Staff Software Engineer, Product

**Company:** [Ambience Healthcare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ambience-healthcare)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $250k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AI, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kafka, Postgres, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, Observability
**Posted:** 2023-03-21

> Designs, builds, and maintains core AI platform infrastructure for healthcare providers, focusing on observability, reliability, and scalability. Leads major technical initiatives end-to-end with 5+ years experience in distributed systems and modern stacks.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Design and architect major product features leveraging the latest advancements in **AI** to deliver a magical user experience
- Anticipate system bottlenecks and proactively re-architect key system components before they create issues for our customers
- Lead product initiatives with high strategic value, accelerating speed of iteration while preventing accumulation of technical debt
- Hold the codebase to a high standard, and assist in developing engineering processes that encourage shipping high quality code

## Who You Are
- **5+ years** of experience tackling zero-to-one engineering challenges, building and scaling systems to meet production SLAs, and navigating architectural trade-offs in distributed systems
- Proficient with modern infrastructure stacks, including cloud providers (**AWS**, **GCP**), containers (**Docker**), queuing systems (**Kafka**), and databases (**Postgres**), and flexible across the stack to deliver projects
- Skilled at mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on, driving quality, execution speed, and successful outcomes as a technical leader or engineering manager
- Demonstrated ability to own end-to-end execution, from concept to impactful results, with a focus on building breakthrough product experiences
- Thrives in environments of complexity and ambiguity, prioritizing collaboration and seeking the best ideas regardless of their source
- Values kindness, encouragement, and being a supportive teammate, fostering a mission-aligned and ambitious team culture

## Compensation
**Base salary range: $250,000–$300,000** per year, exclusive of equity.

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