Staff Software Engineer, Abnormal Security

Distributed Systems Performance Engineering

Salary not provided

+ Equity.

AWS
Kubernetes
Python
Scala
Java
Kafka
Redis
Go
Postgres
Kotlin
Terraform
C++
C
Rust
Prometheus
Bazel
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Abnormal Security

Cloud email security platform

Be an early applicant

Abnormal Security

Cloud email security platform

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSaaSCyber SecurityCloud ComputingFraud

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

+ Equity.

AWS
Kubernetes
Python
Scala
Java
Kafka
Redis
Go
Postgres
Kotlin
Terraform
C++
C
Rust
Prometheus
Bazel
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSaaSCyber SecurityCloud ComputingFraud

Company mission

To make the cloud a safer place for businesses.

Role

Who you are

  • Are passionate about working across engineering to identify and deliver technical solutions to improve efficiency of the Abnormal’s SAAS email product offerings
  • Have expertise building business-critical systems at high scale and consider yourself a backend generalist
  • Want to work with engineering leaders from across Abnormal to drive progress within R&D
  • Are excited to drive cloud cost awareness throughout the organization and develop strategies to reduce our overall infrastructure spend without compromising product quality or customer satisfaction
  • 8+ years of experience in building large-scale distributed cloud systems and architectures on AWS
  • Proven track record of defining and driving engineering initiatives that involve cross-team collaboration
  • 2+ years of experience as a tech lead
  • Backend generalist with both breadth and depth of experience with several backend architectures (streaming, event driven, RPC-based, serverless, etc.) and technologies (data stores, caches, RPCs, etc.)
  • Proven experience with systems-level programming in one or more of the following modern languages: Java, Scala, Kotlin, Go, Rust, C++, or C
  • Proven track record mentoring engineers and “raising the bar” for the whole team
  • Independent and self-motivated

Desirable

  • Experience building cloud enterprise applications
  • Experience building software libraries and/or components leveraged by other engineering teams
  • Experience technologies in the Abnormal Security stack: Go, Python, gPRC, AWS, Kubernetes, Bazel, Terraform, Terragrunt, Prometheus, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis

What the job involves

  • Enterprises of all sizes trust Abnormal Security’s cloud products to stop cybercrime. Being effective at stopping cybercrime, due to its adversarial nature, requires a high level of agility to respond to threats
  • Our Research and Development organization has formed an Advanced Technology Group (ATG) dedicated to solving the most technically-challenging and business critical problems facing us and our customers
  • ATG is responsible for building high-impact, enterprise-grade solutions that can scale and meet the stringent availability, privacy, and security requirements demanded by our customers
  • Abnormal's business is growing quickly. As a cloud-based SaaS provider approaching IPO, we must be intentional regarding our resource allocation and spend
  • As a member of this key group, you will partner with our senior-most engineering leaders (including our Chief Architect) to optimize and re-architect key systems for performance and efficiency
  • This is a highly cross-functional role with exposure across all of our product suite and development stack,
  • Work closely with Abnormal Architects to identify cost efficiency, performance and scaling challenges facing our product and identify solutions to those problems
  • Design and deliver long-term solutions that deliver scale/efficiency and can be maintained and operated by other engineering teams
  • Influence the entire development stack with a focus on cloud cost optimization, from infrastructure choices to application design
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across R&D
  • 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

Our take

Fraud involving impersonation is one of the top causes of online financial crime. Criminal tactics like email account spoofing, where the criminal impersonates an official account to steal personal information or money, are rife. Abnormal Security is a startup aimed at handling these hyper-targeted and personalized email attacks by analyzing communications and identifying potential fraud before it can take place.

The fraud detection space is extremely competitive but Abnormal Security differentiates itself through its focus on the threat of impersonation rather than a spectrum of threats. This has allowed it to amass a wealth of data relating specifically to high-risk impersonation attacks, analyzing over 45,000 signals to detect any anomalies.

Its specialized approach has fueled rapid growth, leading to a $4B valuation after a Serice C Funding round. Now, Abnormal plans to double down on product development and expand internationally, prioritizing markets where data security laws necessitate a local presence. By staying focused on impersonation, Abnormal Security positions itself as a formidable force in the fight against online financial crime.

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Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

11% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Aug 2024

$250m

SERIES D

May 2022

$210m

SERIES C

Total funding: $534m

Company benefits

  • Healthcare
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401k
  • One Medical
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • Mental Health Resources
  • Home Office Stipend
  • Monthly Internet & Phone Stipend
  • Health and Wellness Stipend

Company HQ

Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Having started their career as a Software Engineer, co-founded GamerNook.com, Bloomspot, and Adstack before spending 3 years at Twitter. Co-founded Abnormal Security in April 2018, and has been CEO since.

Previously Senior Software Engineer at Twitter and Google. Was also Software Architect at TellApart.

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