Engineering Manager, Abnormal Security

• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, leading teams focused on internal tools, CI/CD infrastructure, developer productivity, or testing frameworks
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience with backend systems or developer platforms (e.g., Bazel, GitHub Actions, Docker, artifact repositories, cloud infrastructure)
• Proven ability to deliver cross-cutting platform projects and scale internal offerings
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to align with stakeholders and guide team direction
• Passion for improving engineering effectiveness and building tools engineers love

Desirable

• Abnormal AI’s mission is to protect organizations from cybercrime with the power of intelligent detection and resilient platforms
• Our engineers rely on efficient development workflows, robust CI/CD systems, reproducible build infrastructure, and fast, reliable testing to deliver customer value at scale
• This is where the Development Infrastructure and Testing team comes in
• As part of the broader Engineering Effectiveness initiative, this team provides the foundational tools and platforms that power engineering productivity at Abnormal—from secure, reproducible builds and dev environments, to streamlined CI/CD, to automation and metrics for scalable testing
• We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead this team at the heart of the developer experience
• This role will oversee the Development Platform Infrastructure (PI) and influence the formation of Testing Automation Platform (TAP)
• You’ll be responsible for scaling the internal platforms that enable all engineers at Abnormal to build, test, and deploy software confidently, consistently, and quickly
• Lead and grow a team of engineers focused on development environments, build tooling, CI/CD infrastructure, and automated testing platforms
• Define and execute the roadmap for platform services that make engineers more productive—including Bazel-based builds, secure base images, GitHub Actions workflows, and automated PR validation
• Collaborate cross-functionally with SRE, Core Platform, Security, and Product Engineering teams to ensure platform primitives meet the reliability, security, and performance needs of the organization
• Drive reliability and standardization of development workflows—from laptop provisioning and IDE setup to artifact generation and vulnerability scanning
• Promote a data-driven culture by enabling collection and analysis of engineering process metrics (e.g., PR latency, build performance, test failure rates)
• Create a healthy team culture through coaching, growth planning, and inclusive hiring. Foster technical excellence, collaboration, and psychological safety
• Own team execution and delivery, balancing urgent company-wide priorities with long-term investments in developer infrastructure
• What Success Looks Like:
• Engineers experience near-zero friction in development, CI/CD, and testing workflows
• Build and test failures are rare, and when they happen, recovery is fast and obvious
• PRs are reviewed and merged quickly, reliably, and with confidence
• Development infrastructure is stable, secure, and largely invisible to the end user
• Engineering decisions are increasingly informed by high-quality metrics and automation
• The team has a clear, evolving roadmap and is a model of engineering excellence and reliability