Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Abnormal Security's Advanced Technology Group as a key member to optimize and re-architect systems for performance and efficiency. Partner with senior-most engineering leaders to drive progress within R&D, and contribute code and guidance to the team.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Bonus
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)