Staff Back End Software Engineer

Summary

Join Abnormal Security as a Staff Engineer and lead a team of engineers in building a comprehensive tool to understand customer employees and assess security risks. You will shape and elevate the Knowledge Engines Platform team, working closely with platform customers. This role requires a balance of speed and quality, focusing on API development, data processing, and customer collaboration. You will mentor engineers, define APIs and roadmaps, own API SLAs, and create a positive work environment. This is a leadership position requiring both code contribution and team guidance.

Requirements

• 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 timezones with with remote stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Be a leader and mentor for a team of strong engineers distributed between Singapore and India that collaborates closely with other, global teams
• Help define APIs, abstractions and roadmaps that guarantee both short term availability and uptime of services and the longer term ability to expand functionality
• Own and develop data-rich, consumer-grade, APIs showcasing the breadth of Abnormal’s knowledge, compiled from many different sources, about users, IP addresses, applications and more, designed to track the normal patterns as well as those which might indicate something abnormal or risky is going on
• 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
• Contribute both code and guidance to the team
• Be accountable for delivering great solutions and simultaneously making the team around you better

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and/or Azure, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Lucene/ElasticSearch or similar
• Experience with API platform development
• Experience with Go