Senior Back End Engineer

About the Role

Enterprises of all sizes trust Abnormal Security’s cloud products to stop cybercrime. Being effective at stopping cybercrime, due to its adversarial nature, requires a high level of agility to respond to threats. Our Research and Development organisation is forming a group dedicated to solving the most technically-challenging and most critical business problems facing us and our customers. This group will be responsible for building high-impact, enterprise-grade solutions that can scale and meet the stringent availability, privacy, and security requirements demanded by our customers.

As a founding member of this group, you will work with a small team of 3–5 senior engineers and drive highly-visible and highly-impactful projects through to completion. You will be exposed to a wide variety of product areas and will be able to influence the entire development stack.

You should definitely apply to this role if you:

• Are passionate about sitting at the intersection of decomposing business problems into technical solutions to deliver impactful results for the company. 
• Are excited about taking products, services and platform components 0->1 while balancing both quality and speed of delivery. 
• Have expertise building business critical systems at high scale and consider yourself a backend generalist. 
• Want to work with engineering leaders from across Abnormal to drive progress within R&D. 

What you will do 

• Design long-term solutions that immediately scale and meet strict availability, privacy, and security requirements and can be maintained and operated by other engineering teams.
• Improve Platform Infrastructure offerings and Influence the roadmap of the Platform and Infrastructure team by providing constructive feedback on how they can better serve engineering.
• Contribute to the end-to-end delivery of a project executed by your team, including productionalisation, operationalization, and documentation of components.
• Cross-functional collaboration with teams across all of R&D.
• Demonstrate good judgement in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions

 Must Haves 

• 6+ years of experience in building large-scale distributed cloud systems and architectures (preferably on AWS).
• 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
• building systems strictly adhering to privacy-by-design and security-by-design principles.
• Independent and self-motivated

 Nice to Have 

• Experience building cloud enterprise applications.
• Experience building software libraries and/or components leveraged by other engineering teams.
• Experience technologies in the Abnormal Security stack: Go, Python, gPRC, AWS, Kubernetes, Bazel, Terraform, Terragrunt, Prometheus, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis