Ambience Healthcare · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer, Privacy
San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$250K/yr - $300K/yr
7+ years expAmbience Healthcare is the leading AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflow, built to reduce administrative burden and protect revenue integrity at the point of care. The Staff Software Engineer for Privacy will own the systems that protect patient data, focusing on access control, audit logging, and data retention infrastructure to ensure compliance and security in health systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Health CareInformation TechnologyMedical
Responsibilities
Access Control & Authorization — Design and implement granular RBAC across our application. Enforce least-privilege policies, and build workflows requiring users to document why they're accessing specific PHI
Audit Logging & Compliance — Ensure comprehensive audit logs across all application touch points where PHI is accessed. Integrate with SIEM so logs are queryable and useful for real compliance investigations, not just checkbox compliance
Data Retention & De-identification — Build infrastructure supporting per-org retention configurations across all PHI artifact types: EHR chart data, transcripts, audio recordings, logs. Scale intelligent de-identification pipelines across multi-modal clinical data while preserving utility for downstream use cases
Qualification
Required
7+ years in software engineering, 2+ focused on security, privacy, or compliance infrastructure
Staff-level scope: owned cross-cutting initiatives, influenced technical direction across teams
Strong backend fundamentals in Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar
Built access control systems, audit infrastructure, or data lifecycle pipelines
In SF, 3x/week in-person
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision coverage
Quarterly retreats
Unlimited PTO
401(k) plan with matching
Company
Ambience Healthcare
Ambience Healthcare develops an AI operating system used for documentation, coding, and clinical workflows in healthcare organizations.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$319.29M2025-07-29Series C· $243M
2024-02-06Series B· $70M
2022-04-25Series A
Leadership Team
Nikhil Buduma
Co-Founder & CEO
Michael Ng
President & Chairman
Recent News
2026-01-10
Precedence Research
2025-12-04
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