Software Engineer, Platform

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position
We are seeking a Software Engineer to build backend services and APIs that support our robotic fleet and associated application workflows. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of services and APIs that are scalable, testable, maintainable, and easy to integrate with internal and external systems.

Essential Job Duties (Specific responsibilities and tasks an individual would be expected to perform in the role. Additional job duties may be determined by functional people manager)

• Develop backend services and APIs that support our robotic fleet and associated application workflows.
• Develop service capabilities such as configuration management and telemetry data ingestion.
• Implement comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end testing within CI pipelines.
• Contribute to 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.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience (Specific skills, knowledge, and experience that an individual must possess in order to successfully perform in job)

• Experience building backend services and APIs in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, or similar.
• Experience designing REST or GRPC APIs with clear contracts, documentation, versioning, and backward compatibility. 
• Experience with relational databases such as Postgres, service-side data modeling, and transactional system design.
• Experience with automated testing, Gitlab CI/CD, and AWS-based deployment practices for backend services.
• Experience with containerized deployment and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, or Amazon EKS.
• 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.

Required Education and Training (As applicable - Specific education and training that an individual must possess in order to successfully perform in job)

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years relevant experience in software engineering, including backend services or API development.

Preferred Skills and Experience (As applicable - Specific skills, knowledge, and experience that are not required to perform the job, but are desirable to have)

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

Additional Information

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 against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, geneti