Staff Backend Software Engineer, Abnormal Security

• 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 from 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
• Demonstrate good judgement in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
• 8+ years of experience in building large-scale distributed cloud systems and architectures (preferably 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 ⇒ breadth and depth of experience with several backend architectures (streaming, event driven, RPC-based, serverless, etc.) and technologies (data stores, caches, RPCs, etc.)
• 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
• Proven track record mentoring engineers and “raising the bar” for the whole team
• Independent and self-motivated

Desirable

• 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 senior engineering leaders including our CTO and Chief Architect while leading 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
• Work closely with our CTO and Chief Architect to understand critical business problems facing our product and identify solutions to those problems
• 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
• Own all aspects of 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
• This is a leadership role on the team and you will be expected to contribute both code and guidance to the team: you will be accountable for delivering great solutions and simultaneously making the team around you better

• Initial Application
• Designed to get you in and moving through our assessment process, we will ask for the basics such as name, email, resume, etc
• Recruiter Interview
• If we’re moving forward, the next step is a 30-25 minute chat with one of our recruiters
• The recruiter will give a general overview of the role and dive a bit deeper into your experience and background, specifically as it relates to the role you applied for
• This is a great time to ask any general questions about the role, the team, and our company
• Hiring Manager Interview
• If our recruiter thinks your background could be a good fit, you’ll move forward to meet with the hiring manager. This will be a more in-depth conversation about your background and skillset to see if there is a mutual good fit
• This is a great space to ask more specific questions about the role and manager expectations
• Skills Assessment
• If you’re applying for a technical role, you can expect this to be a part of your process. These are usually coding challenges designed to give you a sense of the work you’d be doing, and for us to see how you problem-solve
• Final Interviews
• The last stage in our process is a series of 1:1 Zoom interviews with a handful of other folks on our team that you’d be working with. This varies from role to role, but typically we’ll have you meet with 3-5 team members. These are separate, stacked interviews– we don’t do panel interviews
• We try to get all of these scheduled on the same day, but if your schedule doesn’t allow for that, our recruiting ops team will work closely with you to coordinate a schedule that works for you