Software Engineer 2 Backend Behavioral Security Products

About the role

At Abnormal AI we are on a thrilling mission to safeguard the worlds 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 risksenabling proactive threat prevention and compliance at scale.

SPM is not a single surface but a multi-vertical pillarencompassing SaaS security cloud security identity configurations automation workflows reporting and integrations. As threats evolve we are expanding SPM across to deliver broader coverage richer insights and actionable workflows that strengthen customer resilience.

What Youll Do

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.
  
  

What Were Looking For

• Ownership & Growth: A builders 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.
  
  

Must-Have Skills

• 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.
  
  

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 SPMfrom 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.

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