Senior Back End Software Engineer

About the Role

Abnormal Security is looking for a Senior 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:

• 6+ years working on relevant tech stacks - Python (Django) and Go, MySQL & PostgreSQL databases, ElasticSearch, Redis, and Kafka.
• 3+ years of production support experience for enterprise-class customers.
• At least 2 years 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.