[Hiring] Software Engineer II (Backend) @Abnormal

Role Description

At Abnormal AI, we are on a thrilling mission to safeguard the world’s largest enterprises against relentless email and collaboration application cyber security attacks. Our suite of products empowers organizations to seamlessly visualize, expertly control, and fearlessly combat threats.

The Security Posture Management (SPM) team is a critical element of this mission. SPM provides enterprises with deep visibility and control over their security environment, detecting, surfacing, and helping resolve misconfigurations and risks—enabling proactive threat prevention and compliance at scale.

As a Software Engineer II (Backend) on the SPM team, you will:

• Design & Build: Develop robust, scalable, and secure applications that power posture management across multiple verticals.
• Feature Ownership: Take well-defined business problems and deliver technical solutions end-to-end.
• Innovation & Expansion: Contribute to the growth of SPM by extending posture coverage, improving automation, and enhancing reporting and integrations.
• Quality & Reliability: Write high-quality, test-driven code with comprehensive coverage and strong performance.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams across product, design, and engineering.
• Support: Participate in on-call rotations, helping troubleshoot and resolve production issues.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of industry experience as a Backend Engineer building production-grade applications.
• Strong backend proficiency in Go, with experience designing scalable APIs and services.
• Proficiency in SQL and strong understanding of database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL).
• Knowledge of AWS services (e.g., S3, RDS) and cloud deployment practices.
• Experience with service-to-service communication (e.g., gRPC, Kafka) and caching (Redis).
• Demonstrated ability to write test-driven code in production environments.

Requirements

• Ownership & Growth: A builder’s mindset with eagerness to own impactful features in a fast-evolving product area.
• Attention to Detail: Strong focus on code quality, testing, and reliability.
• Continuous Learner: Excited to learn from senior engineers and expand technical skills.
• Strong Communicator: Comfortable working autonomously and asynchronously in a distributed team.
• Tech-Savvy: Proactive in using modern developer productivity tools, including GenAI assistants.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Envoy).
• Familiarity with GenAI productivity tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude) to accelerate development.
• Familiarity with OAuth/OIDC, RBAC/feature gating.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Experience in building or integrating GenAI-powered tools to improve developer workflows and product features.

Why Join the SPM Team?

• Be part of a critical product pillar at the forefront of enterprise security.
• Contribute across multiple verticals of SPM—from SaaS and cloud to automation, reporting, and integrations.
• Build features that directly protect global organizations from evolving threats and compliance challenges.
• Join a high-growth, high-impact team that thrives on ownership, innovation, and resilience.
• This role is a chance to not only write software, but to help shape the evolution of posture management across multiple security domains at Abnormal.