Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

7+ years in software engineering, 3+ 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

In SF, 3x/week in-person

Ambience powers real-time clinical workflows at the country's largest health systems. Latency and reliability directly impact whether physicians adopt the tool. This isn't theoretical scaling; it's infrastructure that matters.

Healthcare adds interesting constraints. Multi-tenancy has compliance implications. Caching patient data requires thinking about retention and access controls. Your infrastructure decisions have downstream security and privacy consequences.

We're growing rapidly across customers, encounters, and product surface area. The investments you make now will determine how smoothly we handle 10x growth. Small team, high trust, direct access to leadership. Staff engineers here shape technical direction, not just execute on it.

We offer a base compensation range of approximately $250,000–$300,000 per year, exclusive of equity. This intentionally broad range provides flexibility for candidates to tailor their cash and equity mix based on individual preferences. Our compensation philosophy prioritizes meaningful equity grants, enabling team members to share directly in the impact they help create.

Outside of this range? We still encourage you to apply. We take an individualized approach to compensation that accounts for experience, scope, and the life factors that matter to each candidate.

An opportunity to work with cutting edge AI technology, on a product that dramatically improves the quality of life for healthcare providers and the quality of care they can provide to their patients

Work alongside a world-class, diverse team that is deeply mission aligned

Ownership over your success and the ability to significantly impact the growth of our company

Competitive salary and equity compensation with benefits including health, dental, and vision coverage, quarterly retreats, unlimited PTO, and a 401(k) plan with matching

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