Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Ambience HealthcareSan Francisco, California, United States
Posted February 2, 2026
250000 - 300000 USD
Full Time
About the Company
Ambience Healthcare is the leading AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflow, built to reduce administrative burden and protect revenue integrity at the point of care.
Job Description
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to own the core systems that let Ambience scale reliably. This includes database architecture, caching, multi-tenancy, and performance optimization.
Requirements
- 7+ years in software engineering
- 3+ years focused on infrastructure, backend systems, or platform engineering
- Staff-level scope: owned cross-cutting infrastructure, debugged production issues that stumped others
- Strong backend fundamentals in Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar
- Deep experience with relational databases (Postgres preferred)
- Comfort reading code across the stack to trace performance issues
- Track record of diagnosing and solving scaling or reliability problems
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Quarterly retreats
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k) plan with matching
