Abnormal Security is looking for a backend software engineer to work on customer-facing products that enable SOC teams to search across cloud email tenants, investigate threats, and perform remediation at scale. You'll work on systems that directly power how security teams find and act on malicious messages inside the Abnormal platform. We use AI-augmented development practices across our engineering org, and expect engineers to leverage modern AI tools to build faster and ship high-quality software with more leverage. The ideal candidate has backend and distributed systems experience, takes ownership of what they ship, and wants to work on products where reliability and speed directly affect customer security outcomes.
What You Will Do- Design and build backend services that power search, remediation, and quarantine workflows across multi-tenant enterprise email environments
- Work with the Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, and Product Manager to scope, develop, and deliver features end-to-end
- Own the reliability of the systems you build, including unit tests, integration testing, and production observability
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide technical support to troubleshoot and resolve customer issues
- Contribute to API design for customer-facing REST endpoints used by security operations teams
- Communicate effectively in an async-first environment, provide updates, surface blockers, and propose solutions without prompting
- Leverage AI development tools to enhance productivity, optimize workflows, and deliver reliable production outcomes
- Mentor junior engineers and raise the engineering bar through code reviews and knowledge sharing
- BS degree in Computer Science, Applied Sciences, Information Systems, or a related engineering field
- 3+ years of industry experience in backend development and distributed systems
- Experience building features and components from scratch and operating them in production, balancing feature work with operational reliability
- Experience working with distributed teams, proficient in asynchronous and written communication
- Experience improving service reliability, resiliency, and observability in production systems
- Strong fundamentals in computer science, data structures, and system design
- Experience with our stack: Python, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Django
- Experience with search systems, remediation workflows, or operational tooling used by SOC teams
- Experience with SIEM/SOAR integrations or platform APIs
- Exposure to email security, email authentication standards (DMARC, DKIM), or cybersecurity products
Abnormal AI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. For our EEO policy statement please click here. If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please click here.
Skills Required
- BS degree in Computer Science, Applied Sciences, Information Systems, or a related engineering field
- 3+ years of industry experience in backend development and distributed systems
- Experience building features and components from scratch and operating them in production
- Experience improving service reliability, resiliency, and observability in production systems
- Strong fundamentals in computer science, data structures, and system design
Abnormal Security Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered aggressively benchmarked to leading tech markets with annual reviews, and feedback suggests engineering and sales roles are compensated competitively with strong upside potential.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as robust, including employer-paid premiums for employees in prior postings, One Medical access, and globally designed healthcare and parental leave.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off provisions include flexible/unlimited PTO, company holidays, and paid parental leave that the company positions as globally available.
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What We Do
The Abnormal Security platform protects enterprises from targeted email attacks. Abnormal Behavior Technology (ABX) models the identity of both employees and external senders, profiles relationships and analyzes email content to stop attacks that lead to account takeover, financial damage and organizational mistrust. Though one-click, API-based Office 365 and G Suite integration, Abnormal sets up in minutes and does not disrupt email flow. Abnormal Security was founded in 2018 by CEO Evan Reiser, CTO Sanjay Jeyakumar, Head of Machine Learning Jeshua Bratman, and Founding Engineers Abhijit Bagri and Dmitry Chechik. The team previously built behavioral profiling and machine learning technologies at Twitter, Google and Pinterest that are being applied to solve a problem that costs organizations $1 billion per year, according to the FBI. The Abnormal Security platform stops targeted phishing, business email compromise and account takeover attacks that have never been seen before.
