Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Performance Engineering

About the Role

Enterprises of all sizes trust Abnormal Security’s cloud products to stop cybercrime. Being effective at stopping cybercrime, due to its adversarial nature, requires a high level of agility to respond to threats. Our Research and Development organization has formed an Advanced Technology Group (ATG) dedicated to solving the most technically-challenging and business critical problems facing us and our customers. ATG is responsible for building high-impact, enterprise-grade solutions that can scale and meet the stringent availability, privacy, and security requirements demanded by our customers. 

Abnormal's business is growing quickly. As a cloud-based SaaS provider approaching IPO, we must be intentional regarding our resource allocation and spend. As a member of this key group, you will partner with our senior-most engineering leaders (including our Chief Architect) to optimize and re-architect key systems for performance and efficiency. This is a highly cross-functional role with exposure across all of our product suite and development stack,

You should definitely apply to this role if you:

• Are passionate about working across engineering to identify and deliver technical solutions to improve efficiency of the Abnormal’s SAAS email product offerings.
• 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. 
• Are excited to drive cloud cost awareness throughout the organization and develop strategies to reduce our overall infrastructure spend without compromising product quality or customer satisfaction.

What you will do 

• Work closely with Abnormal Architects to identify cost efficiency, performance and scaling challenges facing our product and identify solutions to those problems.
• Design and deliver long-term solutions that deliver scale/efficiency and can be maintained and operated by other engineering teams.
• Influence the entire development stack with a focus on cloud cost optimization, from infrastructure choices to application design.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across 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.

Must Haves 

• 8+ years of experience in building large-scale distributed cloud systems and architectures 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 with both breadth and depth of experience with several backend architectures (streaming, event driven, RPC-based, serverless, etc.) and technologies (data stores, caches, RPCs, etc.)
• Proven experience with systems-level programming in one or more of the following modern languages: Java, Scala, Kotlin, Go, Rust, C++, or C
• Proven track record mentoring engineers and “raising the bar” for the whole team
• Independent and self-motivated

Nice to Have 

• Experience building cloud enterprise applications.
• Experience building software libraries and/or components leveraged by other engineering teams.
• Experience technologies in the Abnormal Security stack: Go, Python, gPRC, AWS, Kubernetes, Bazel, Terraform, Terragrunt, Prometheus, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis

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