Senior/Staff Cloud Security Engineer

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 mosttheir 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. 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 handson execution of securing our cloud infrastructure across the entire product portfolio. You'll work crossfunctionally with product and engineering teams to integrate security seamlessly, automate security capabilities and controls, and mentor others to build securebydefault infrastructure at scale in the age of AI. Impact the product from ideation through to code that is shipping to production. Conduct threat modeling and security architecture reviews for multicloud complex systems, new infrastructure, and platform initiatives, providing expert guidance and requirements to meet Abridges 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.
Build Security Pipelines & Automation: Design, implement, and maintain advanced security automation tools and services, integrating them seamlessly into infrastructureascode 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 policyascode across the development environment.
Perform and lead indepth security and code reviews (both manual and toolassisted) 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 endtoend vulnerability management program for Abridges products and applications, infrastructure and networks, ensuring timely identification, prioritization, and remediation of critical security issues while doing so in as developerfriendly a way as possible.
Serve as an expert on Abridges cloud environments, infrastructure, and networks for the security incident response team, assisting in investigating and resolving security events and incidents.

Experience: 7+ years of direct experience in a Cloud Security / Infrastructure Security role, with a demonstrated history of designing and implementing security improvements at scale.
Programming Fluency: Deep proficiency in one or more major programming languages (Python and/or NextJS a big plus) and a solid background in software development principles.
Direct experience with Terraform, infrastructureascode pipelines, and associated automation.
Cloud & Containers: Extensive experience securing cloud environments (GCP, AWS) and knowledge of containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).
Technical Depth: Expertlevel knowledge of cloud and infrastructure security techniques and principles, network security, etc.
Bonus Points If
AI Security: Deep understanding of the security of AI models, agents, and associated infrastructure.
Experience with red teaming / penetration testing of clouds, infrastructure, networks a plus.
Demonstrated ability to drive large, crossfunctional technical projects that impact security posture across the entire organization.
At Abridge, were transforming healthcare delivery experiences with generative AI, enabling clinicians and patients to connect in deeper, more meaningful ways. Our mission is clear: to power deeper understanding in healthcare. Were driving real, lasting change, with millions of medical conversations processed each month.
Joining Abridge means stepping into a fastpaced, highgrowth startup where your contributions truly make a difference. Our culture requires extreme ownershipevery employee has the ability to (and is expected to) make an impact on our customers and our business.
Whether it's flexible work hours, an inclusive culture, or ongoing learning opportunities, we are here to help you thrive and do the best work of your life.
If you are ready to make a meaningful impact alongside passionate people who care deeply about what they do, Abridge is the place for you.
How we take care of Abridgers:
~ Generous Time Off : 13 paid holidays, flexible PTO for salaried employees, and accrued time off for hourly employees.
~ Comprehensive Health Plans : Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for all fulltime employees. Paid Parental Leave : 16 weeks paid parental leave for all fulltime employees.
~Contribution matching to help invest in your future.
~ Pretax Benefits : Access to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Commuter Benefits.
~ Compensation and Equity : Competitive compensation and equity grants for full time employees.
~ ... Abridge is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability.
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