Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Behavioral Security Products
Abnormal Security9 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and iterate on scalable backend and ML systems, APIs, frameworks, and internal tools.
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex features for the Account Takeover protection platform.
- Improve system stability, reliability, performance, latency, and operational excellence.
- Write clean, testable, resilient code and participate in code and design reviews.
- Write technical design documents and influence their adoption across the team.
- Participate in on-call rotations and support production ownership.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers on specifications and priorities.
- Break down complex projects, drive execution, contribute to roadmap discussions, and propose long-term technical plans.
- Mentor peers, share knowledge, and influence engineering practices across the team.
Requirements
- 7+ years of industry experience as a Senior Software Engineer.
- Strong Python backend proficiency and experience designing and scaling production systems.
- Experience with large-scale system design and resilient, scalable, fault-tolerant applications.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases and modern data storage technologies.
- Familiarity with gRPC, Kafka, and Redis.
- Experience with AWS cloud services including S3 and RDS.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Strong understanding of service health, monitoring, and incident response practices.
- Experience writing technical design documents and influencing adoption across teams.
- Ability to lead complex projects, collaborate across teams, mentor peers, and work effectively in a distributed environment.
- Interest in using GenAI assistants and other developer productivity tools.
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About Abnormal Security
Abnormal AI is the leading AI-native human behavior security platform, leveraging machine learning to stop sophisticated inbound attacks and detect compromised accounts across email and connected applications.