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Abnormal Security

AI-driven email threat detection and prevention

Senior Software Engineer - Backend, ISPM

Full-Stack EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of backend experience, including at least 2 years in a tech lead or senior technical leadership role.
  • A proven track record of mentoring engineers and raising the team's technical standards.
  • System architecture expertise, including designing and operating scalable, multi-tenant, event-driven distributed systems at scale.
  • Deep experience with Kafka or similar high-throughput event-streaming technologies.
  • Extensive production backend experience with Go, including idiomatic services, clean design patterns, thorough testing, and robust error handling.
  • Production-level React and TypeScript skills, including owning user-facing features end to end.
  • Strong SQL and PostgreSQL proficiency, including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for multi-tenant workloads.
  • Ability to explain technical trade-offs to product managers, present architecture to leadership, and write comprehensive design documents.
  • Ability to make decisions with partial data and iterate quickly.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the ISPM technical roadmap by converting product requirements into system designs, mapping implementation phases, and making build-versus-extend decisions.
  • Architect, design, and scale core identity security posture systems.
  • Build cross-functional technical partnerships with platform teams across the security and identity stack.
  • Author, review, and evaluate technical design documents, and facilitate architectural discussions and design reviews.
  • Establish and uphold engineering best practices across the sub-team, focusing on testing, code quality, API design, and observability.
  • Build and scale backend services using Go or Python, including event-driven systems, REST and gRPC APIs, cron jobs, and integration layers.
  • Build and maintain user-facing interfaces using React and TypeScript for policy dashboards, identity visualization, and mitigation workflows.
  • Design, model, and optimize database schemas for large-scale multi-tenant identity workloads.
  • Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka to manage asynchronous workflows and continuously evaluate identity postures.
  • Maintain operational reliability and service health using runbooks, feature flags, and monitoring setups.
  • Support, mentor, and guide a distributed team of 3–4 engineers across India and Singapore.
  • Partner with product managers and an engineering manager to align technical strategy, prioritize roadmaps, and deliver quarterly key results and milestones.
  • Own operational health for all services, including on-call rotation, incident response, and service-level objective management.
  • Represent the team in organizational alignment, review sessions, and client interactions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in identity security, identity and access management, or security posture management.
  • Background in cybersecurity products.
  • Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers API design.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted software development workflows and tools.

About the Company

Abnormal Security

AI-driven email threat detection and prevention

Abnormal Security provides AI-driven email security for large enterprises to prevent phishing, malware, and business email compromise. Its platform analyzes emails using machine learning to detect suspicious patterns and behaviors in real time, stopping threats before they reach users. The product integrates with existing email systems via an API, allowing quick deployment with minimal disruption. The company differentiates itself by focusing on sophisticated, modern threats that bypass traditional defenses, backed by a leadership team with deep AI, ML, and enterprise security experience, and by offering a subscription model that supports continuous protection and updates. The goal is to help organizations securely communicate by continuously detecting and blocking email-based attacks and staying ahead of attackers through ongoing research and development and growth.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Series D
Total funding
$534M
Headquarters
Las Vegas, NV
Founded
2018

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