Senior Back End Software Engineer at Abnormal

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 Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent work experience