Senior/Staff Cloud Security Engineer

About Abridge

Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper understanding in healthcare. Our AI-powered platform was purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most—their patients.

Our enterprise-grade technology transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time, with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and our purpose-built, auditable AI, we are the only company that maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, we are setting the industry standards for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems.

We are a growing team of practicing MDs, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to empower people and make care make more sense. We have offices located in the Mission District in San Francisco, the SoHo neighborhood of New York, and East Liberty in Pittsburgh.

The Role

Want to work on building out security from the ground up at the leading edge of AI in healthcare globally? We're looking for a very experienced and highly motivated Senior or Staff Cloud Security Engineer to join our team as one of the first engineers on the Abridge Security team. In this role, you'll be a key technical leader, driving key initiatives that shape our product, infrastructure, and engineering practices. Impact both the vision and hands-on execution of securing our cloud infrastructure across the entire product portfolio. You'll work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to integrate security seamlessly, automate security capabilities and controls, and mentor others to build secure-by-default infrastructure at scale in the age of AI. This position requires deep technical expertise, a builder's mindset, and excellent communication skills to influence security culture across the organization.

What You’ll Do

• Secure Development & Architecture Leadership

  • Lead Threat Modeling and Design Reviews: Impact the product from ideation through to code that is shipping to production. Conduct threat modeling and security architecture reviews for multi-cloud complex systems, new infrastructure, and platform initiatives, providing expert guidance and requirements to meet Abridge’s security goals.

  • Define Security Strategy: Define and implement the technical roadmap for the Cloud Security program, focusing on scalable assurance, proactive security measures, and setting clear standards and guardrails.

  • Mentor and Enable: Act as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor to product and engineering teams, providing mentorship on cloud and infrastructure security, architecture, vulnerability remediation strategies, reliability, and resilience.

• Security Automation and Tooling

  • Build Security Pipelines & Automation: Design, implement, and maintain advanced security automation tools and services, integrating them seamlessly into infrastructure-as-code pipelines.

  • Tool Management & Tuning: Own the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of CloudSec tooling, tuning scanners and custom rules to reduce false positives and maximize efficacy across various technology stacks

  • Drive Proactive Security: Develop custom scripts and tooling to automate security tasks and processes, accelerate configuration monitoring and vulnerability detection, and enforce policy-as-code across the development environment.

• Vulnerability Management & Incident Response

  • Code and Security Reviews: Perform and lead in-depth security and code reviews (both manual and tool-assisted) to identify complex security vulnerabilities and flaws in infrastructure, networks, configurations, policies, etc. Get hands on with assessing infrastructure associated with AI models, agents, and architectures.

  • Vulnerability Program Oversight: Work across security and engineering teams, advise on the end-to-end vulnerability management program for Abridge’s products and applications, infrastructure and networks, ensuring timely identification, prioritization, and remediation of critical security issues while doing so in as developer-friendly a way as possible.

  • Security Incident Response: Serve as an expert on Abridge’s cloud environments, infrastructure, and networks for the security incident response team, assisting in investigating and resolving security events and incidents.

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