Engineering Manager, Abnormal Security
Data Platform
+ Equity
Cloud email security platform
Job no longer available
Cloud email security platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the cloud a safer place for businesses.
Role
Who you are
- Mentor & team amplifier - Has led a team of platform engineers and has had past experience building out systems that empower Engineers to
- Customer obsessed: Working with our internal engineers to determine the systems and signals roadmap and balance against engineering needs. Meeting with customers to understand their needs and explain our engineering roadmap
- Ability to hire and retain top talent
- Sets high standards and expectations for project execution for themselves and the whole team
- 2+ Years of experience as an Engineering Manager, leading a team of back-end engineers, responsible for building high-scale, data intensive systems
- 5+ years of experience as a senior IC, with experience in one or more of areas of the Data Platform tech stack (Postgresql, Kafka, Redis, OpenSearch, Spark, AWS/Azure)
- Experience launching and owning complex engineering projects, managing stakeholders
- Nice-to-have: Knowledge and/or experience building out platform offerings to support other engineering teams
- Communication Skills:
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills, can quickly, accurately and clearly communicate with team members & stakeholders
- Technical Proficiency:
- Technical expertise in some or all of your team’s technical domain that will allow you to coach, guide, and evaluate the work of the engineering teams you’ll be managing
- Teamwork & Leadership:
- Can effectively earn trust and credibility from a diverse set of Engineering, Product, and Design team members
- Able to accurately assess interview candidate qualifications, and hire top talent
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager, you are responsible for the health and performance of your team
- An Engineering Manager is responsible for managing the execution of key team deliverables
- You are expected to deliver on the tactical plans to execute these deliverables, and may use support to do so
- You primarily manage Individual Contributors, and may manage other managers
- An Engineering Manager is responsible for the quality of your team’s work as well as establishing an improvement plan for your areas of ownership
- You bring together the product and technical requirements to establish an execution plan that delivers on expected goals and outcomes
- An Engineering Manager is responsible for recruiting and building the right team to execute on the team’s deliverables
- In addition, you are responsible for assessing and improving team health - building career growth plans, planning offsites and team building exercises, etc
- An Engineering Manager needs to understand the overall team/department strategy, communicate it to your teams, and execute on the plan
- An Engineering Manager’s success or failure impacts cost and achievement of short-term goals, and may potentially jeopardize the overall business
- Deliver against the Data Platform mission to enable efficient, reliable, and scalable data processing at Abnormal, online and offline
- Define guardrails and best practices for engineering teams processing data
- Manage team performance - understand team member’s strengths and weaknesses, areas of growth
- Provide timely, actionable feedback, and invest time in career development of team members
- Create a healthy team environment & culture with low attrition & high team member satisfaction
- Attract, recruit and retain top engineering talent to increase the team’s capacity to execute and achieve ambitious goals
- People Management & Growth:
- Actively manages team performance - understands team members’ strengths and weaknesses, areas of growth, whether they are meeting their specific role expectations, and has a plan to address under & over performance
- Ensures the growth of team members
- Coaches, provides timely, actionable feedback, and invests time in the career development of team members
- Creates a healthy team environment & culture with low attrition & high team member satisfaction
- Recruiting & Hiring:
- Creates detailed recruiting plans for open job reqs, and hires qualified candidates in the most efficient time span possible
- Organizes & Improves engineering interview processes
- Trains engineering interviewers
- Helps close candidates
- Team Execution:
- Ensures execution and attainment of team’s goals
- Enforces technical design and project plans, along with PMs and Tech Leads
- Ensures best practices & organizational processes are being followed within the team
- Leadership & Collaboration:
- Receives assignments in the form of objectives, and determines how to meet schedule & goals
- Provides input into the feasibility of team strategy proposed by org-wide leadership
Application process
- Initial Application
- Recruiter Interview:
- A 30-25 minute chat with one of our recruiters
- Hiring Manager Interview:
- A more in-depth conversation about your background and skillset to see if there is a mutual good fit
- Skills Assessment:
- If you’re applying for a technical role, you can expect this to be a part of your process
- These are usually coding challenges designed to give you a sense of the work you’d be doing, and for us to see how you problem-solve
- Final Interviews:
- The last stage in our process is a series of 1:1 Zoom interviews with a handful of other folks on our team that you’d be working with
- This varies from role to role, but typically we’ll have you meet with 3-5 team members
- These are separate, stacked interviews– we don’t do panel interviews
- We try to get all of these scheduled on the same day, but if your schedule doesn’t allow for that, our recruiting ops team will work closely with you to coordinate a schedule that works for you
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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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
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Founders
Evan Reiser
(CEO)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.
Sanjay Jeyakumar
(CTO)Previously Senior Software Engineer at Twitter and Google. Was also Software Architect at TellApart.
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