Staff Back End Software Engineer

About the Role

In a cloud software world, where who you are and what you have access to determines the risk associated with your accounts being compromised, Abnormal Security aims to build a comprehensive tool to understand the employees of our customers, and aid security professionals in assessing the risks and threats impacting their employee base. Help us build a new layer of protection that will give enterprises the same level of security for their cloud offerings as Abnormal Security’s industry leading products do in the email security space. 

We’re looking to add a Staff Engineer to help lead our team of world class engineers. The individual in this role will shape and elevate our Knowledge Base teams while working closely with platform customers. This role straddles the line of velocity and excellence.

What you will do: 

As a Staff Engineer leading the Knowledge Base teams, you will: 

• Be a leader and mentor for a team of strong engineers distributed between Singapore and India that collaborates closely with other, global teams. 

• Help define APIs, abstractions and roadmaps that guarantee both short term availability and uptime of services and the longer term ability to expand functionality

• Own and develop data-rich, consumer-grade, APIs showcasing the breadth of Abnormal’s knowledge, compiled from many different sources, about users, IP addresses, applications and more, designed to track the normal patterns as well as those which might indicate something abnormal or risky is going on. 

• Build the Knowledge Bases product, giving both the visibility to our customers of what’s happening across their cloud ecosystem as well as the ability to control and remediate security risks

• Obsessively partner with our customers to gather their feedback and quickly iterate to improve our systems

• Create a magical work environment with colleagues and memorable interview process for candidates

This is a leadership role on the team and you will be expected to contribute both code and guidance to the team: you will be accountable for delivering great solutions and simultaneously making the team around you better. 

Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years of development experience with specific expertise in distributed systems, large scale data pipelines and building out world class products

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

• 5+ years of experience in Python/Golang based backend systems development

• At least 4 years of system design experience

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

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

• Proven experience working effectively with cross-functional teams across multiple timezones with with remote stakeholders

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience with AWS and/or Azure, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Lucene/ElasticSearch or similar

• Experience with API platform development

• Experience with Go

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.

About Abnormal Security

We're one of the world's fastest growing cybersecurity companies, on a mission to protect the modern workplace from the most pressing threats. Our AI-native technology was built from the ground up to tackle forward-looking security challenges, and our team works with bleeding-edge technology to keep our customers and their people safe as attacks grow ever more sophisticated. Our team is what makes us successful, which is why we're committed to a culture of learning, ownership, and high performance, where you'll have the opportunity to accelerate your growth and unlock excellence with the support of talented colleagues.

Our Benefits

Taking care of our team goes beyond the office. Our compensation and benefits philosophy is designed to put attract, motivate, and retain top talent: Competitive Compensation We pay competitively to attract, reward, and retain top talent in the market

Equity is an important part of our total comp strategy

When the company does well, we all do well. Equity is an important and exciting part of our total compensation strategy as a pre-IPO startup. We’re guided by the belief our team members should share in the financial success of our company and grant equity accordingly.

Flexible PTO

All regular salaried team members enjoy flexible PTO. We want team members to grow with us, and a big part of that is making sure our team has the opportunity to rest and recharge. We also observe 12 paid holidays every year.

Generous Healthcare Coverage for You and Your Family

Taking care of our team goes beyond the office. In the US, we cover 100% of employee health care premium costs, and up to 100% for dependents, depending on the plan. Internationally, we offer similarly generous coverage, customized to each country in which we operate.

Fully Distributed Workforce

Operating as a globally-distributed, majority remote company means we get to work with talented folks, no matter where they live. We prioritize a balance of deep focus time with Zoom meetings, and regular in-person events. As a fast growing startup, we continuously review, improve, and personalize our benefits offerings based on the team’s input. Don’t see something that’s important to you? Let us know!

Our Interview Process

We value transparency at Abnormal, and our interview process is no exception.

Inclusion Matters

Abnormal Security is committed to creating a diverse work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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