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Abbott Laboratories

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud

United States - Illinois - Abbott Park Posted today

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Sponsorship verdict

Sponsorship possible

One solid signal, not two. Worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.

  • Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 73 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
  • The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
  • No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
  • What Abbott Laboratories paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER” (Software Developers) in TX: $135k–$158k, median $143k.
  • Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
Details and sources
Employer is on a government sponsor record
The US Department of Labor certified 73 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
No salary bar for this route
H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
What Abbott Laboratories paid sponsored hires in similar roles
3 certified filings for “STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER” (Software Developers) in TX: $135k–$158k, median $143k. Most were filed at wage level II (33%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).

US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).

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About the role

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology. Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to: • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. • Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year • An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution • Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree. • A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. • A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. THE OPPORTUNITY This   Senior Software Engineer, Cloud position can work out remotely within the U.S . The Senior Software Engineer, Cloud will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 49 countries. The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day. Senior Software Engineer, Cloud will have strong leadership ability and bring a passion for software engineering to help shape the direction of the team. We highly value versatility and a continuous learning mindset, along with the ability to empower fellow team members. You will contribute to building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS. WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON  • Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms. • Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms. • Developing high-volume, low-latency services for a global health care platform • Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems. • Design and implement unit testable code that is highly maintainable. • Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions. • Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts. • Provide new ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services team. • Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design. • Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team • Build out internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer. • Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals. • Create diagrams, flowcharts and models that illustrate the internal design and workflow of solution components. • Collaborate as an engaged member of an agile team, realizing features through developme

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