Back End Software Engineer II

Back End Software Engineer II - App Foundations

About the Role

Abnormal Security is looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Multi-Product Platform (MPP) team. The MPP team owns the product platform which enables scalable product development to support the business to create and launch various enterprise-level products for the customers with consistent experience. The ideal candidate will have the following qualities:

• You are a product minded engineer who’s passionate about building the best product for our customers

• You take a “principle-first” approach to building scalable, customer-centric solutions

• You’re looking for a “mission-first” company aiming to solve meaningful and pragmatic problems

• You’re looking to take ownership of your work and your growth 

• You’re self-driven, detail-oriented, and care about code quality, testing, and customer-driven product experience

• You bring up ambiguities and clarify decisions with leadership instead of improvising solutions on the go

• You have strong communication skills and proven ability to work autonomously and asynchronously with remote collaborators and stakeholders

What you will do: 

• Work with engineers, designers, PMs, EMs to deliver on the product roadmap and meet company-wide objectives.

• Design, build, and maintain new high performance, low latency products and services

• Work closely with engineering and product managers to assess trade-offs, develop plans, and build platform and foundations to enable scalable product development

• Optimize our internal processes with automation such that we can service customers with little to no human intervention.

• Setup and maintain instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting for our services.

Must Have Skills:

• 3+ years working on relevant tech stacks - Python (Django) and Go, MySQL & PostgreSQL databases, ElasticSearch, Redis, and Kafka

• 1+ years of production support experience for enterprise-class customers

• At least 1 year of system design experience

• Proven experience building and maintaining microservices.

• Proven experience owning testing as well as the development of all software solutions

• Proven experience working with agile development methodologies (both scrum and kanban)

• Proven  experience collaborating effectively with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver world class products

• A Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

At Abnormal Security certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits. Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons. We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package.

Base salary range:

$148,800—$175,000 USD

Export Compliance Notice:

This position involves access to technology that is subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As a result, candidates offered employment must be eligible to access controlled technology under U.S. export control laws. Employment in this position is conditioned on the availability of government authorization. The Company may delay commencement of employment, rescind an offer of employment, terminate employment, as Company deems appropriate, in order to ensure compliance with applicable government access control restrictions. As part of Abnormal AI's secure hiring practices, we conduct video interviews and validate applicant identity at various stages through our recruitment process. Further, if your application is successful and Abnormal AI makes a conditional offer of employment, we will carry out pre-employment checks which must be successfully completed to progress to a final offer. All processes and pre-employment checks are in line with prevailing legislation and Abnormal AI's policies relevant to our security and privacy standards. Abnormal AI is committed to protecting your privacy.