• You are someone who wants to make an impact
• You are passionate about solving customer problems and have built up a base of skills in backend and distributed systems development to do so
• You want to apply those skills on a problem that leaves the world in a better place
• You will need to be just as comfortable on a zoom call as writing a 1 pager project proposal to be shared across the team for technical feedback
• 8+ years of backend development experience with specific expertise in distributed systems, large scale data pipelines and data processing techniques
• 5+ years of production support experience for enterprise-class customers
• 5+ years of experience in Python/Golang based backend systems development
• At least 4 years of system design experience
• Proven experience owning testing as well as development of all software solutions
• Proven experience working with agile development methodologies (both scrum and kanban)
• Proven experience working effectively with cross-functional teams across multiple time zones with with remote stakeholders

Desirable

• We’re looking to add a Staff Backend Software Engineer to our team of world class engineers
• The individual in this role will shape and elevate our engineering teams within the Behavioral Security Products division
• This role straddles the line of velocity and excellence
• Be a leader and mentor for a team of strong engineers distributed across the United States that collaborates closely with teams across the globe
• Help define APIs, abstractions and roadmaps that guarantee both short term availability and uptime of services while expanding future functionality
• Own and develop data-rich, consumer-grade APIs that provide a singular platform for visibility, config management, and active detection
• Build and maintain high-throughput, low-latency systems that process over 100s of millions of events per day to enable detection of compromised cloud accounts
• Define and support the SLAs for these APIs, enabling the building of Abnormal’s world class real time detection systems on top of them
• Obsessively partner with our customers to gather their feedback and quickly iterate to improve our systems
• Create a magical work environment with colleagues and memorable interview process for candidates
• 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