Back End Software Engineer II - App Foundations

About the Role

Abnormal Security is looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Multi-Product Platform (MPP) team. The MPP team owns the product platform which enables scalable product development to support the business to create and launch various enterprise-level products for the customers with consistent experience. The ideal candidate will have the following qualities:

• You are a product minded engineer who’s passionate about building the best product for our customers
• You take a “principle-first” approach to building scalable, customer-centric solutions
• You’re looking for a “mission-first” company aiming to solve meaningful and pragmatic problems
• You’re looking to take ownership of your work and your growth 
• You’re self-driven, detail-oriented, and care about code quality, testing, and customer-driven product experience
• You bring up ambiguities and clarify decisions with leadership instead of improvising solutions on the go
• You have strong communication skills and proven ability to work autonomously and asynchronously with remote collaborators and stakeholders

What you will do: 

• Work with engineers, designers, PMs, EMs to deliver on the product roadmap and meet company-wide objectives.
• Design, build, and maintain new high performance, low latency products and services
• Work closely with engineering and product managers to assess trade-offs, develop plans, and build platform and foundations to enable scalable product development
• Optimize our internal processes with automation such that we can service customers with little to no human intervention.
• Setup and maintain instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting for our services.

Must Have Skills:

• 3+ years working on relevant tech stacks - Python (Django) and Go, MySQL & PostgreSQL databases, ElasticSearch, Redis, and Kafka
• 1+ years of production support experience for enterprise-class customers
• At least 1 year of system design experience
• Proven experience building and maintaining microservices.
• Proven experience owning testing as well as the development of all software solutions
• Proven experience working with agile development methodologies (both scrum and kanban)
• Proven  experience collaborating effectively with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver world class products
• A Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

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