As a Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain high-performance products, optimize internal processes, and collaborate with teams to meet product objectives.
About the Role
Abnormal Security is looking for a Backend Engineer to join the App Foundations team. We are in the The MPP division and this team builds the infrastructure, services, and features that are core to the platform and enable the creation and launch of new products.
The ideal candidate will have the following qualities:
- You are a product minded engineer who’s passionate about building the best product for our customers
- You take a “principle-first” approach to building scalable, customer-centric solutions
- You’re looking for a “mission-first” company aiming to solve meaningful and pragmatic problems
- You’re looking to take ownership of your work and your growth
- You’re self-driven, detail-oriented, and care about code quality, testing, and customer-driven product experience
- You bring up ambiguities and clarify decisions with leadership instead of improvising solutions on the go
- You have strong communication skills and proven ability to work autonomously and asynchronously with remote collaborators and stakeholders
- We are looking for candidates who are interested in working with AI tools to accelerate their development
- Work with engineers, designers, PM's, EM's to deliver on the product roadmap and meet company-wide objectives.
- Design, build, and maintain new high performance, low latency products and services
- Work closely with engineering and product managers to assess trade-offs, develop plans, and build platform and foundations to enable scalable product development
- Optimize our internal processes with automation such that we can service customers with little to no human intervention.
- Setup and maintain instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting for our services.
- 3+ years working on relevant tech stacks - Python (Django) and Go, MySQL & PostgreSQL databases, ElasticSearch, Redis, and Kafka
- 2+ years of production support experience for enterprise-class customers
- At least 1 year of system design experience
- Proven experience building and maintaining microservices.
- Proven experience owning testing as well as the development of all software solutions
- Proven experience working with agile development methodologies (both scrum and kanban)
- Proven experience collaborating effectively with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver world class products
- A Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
At Abnormal AI, certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits. Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons. We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. Learn more about our Compensation and Equity Philosophy on our Benefits & Perks page.
Base salary range:
$148,800—$175,050 USD
Abnormal AI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. For our EEO policy statement please click here. If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please click here.
Top Skills
Django
Elasticsearch
Go
Kafka
MySQL
Postgres
Python
Redis
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