Senior Software Engineer - Backend - Multi-Product Platform (Config Platform)

About The Role

At Abnormal AI, we are on a thrilling mission to safeguard the world's largest enterprises against a vast range of relentless email and collaboration application cyber security attacks. Our relentless pursuit involves crafting an exceptional suite of products that empowers customers to seamlessly visualize, expertly control, and fearlessly combat cyber-security threats.

The MPP organization in Abnormal AI 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. We are looking for a Sr Software Engineer who will be a feature lead for the Configuration Platform team under the MPP organisation. Our Configuration Platform team is creating a unified, intelligent system that empowers engineers to ship faster and build better. You'll architect solutions that set new standards for developer productivity, making configurations a competitive advantage. Join us to create an infrastructure that scales with our ambitious growth and directly impacts how we deliver exceptional products to our customers.

What You’ll Do

• Technical Delivery & Operational Excellence
• Build and iterate on product offerings, APIs, platforms, frameworks and tools.
• Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining feature buildouts to support a world-class user experience for our customers.
• Ensure system stability and reliability of your crafted work.
• Participate in regular code and design reviews as well as team-wide on-call rotation.
• Write code with testability, readability, edge cases, and errors in mind.
• Write and review technical design documents.
• Teamwork & Collaboration
• Communicate effectively in an asynchronous manner with team members to provide updates, discuss challenges and propose solutions.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to ensure seamless integration and effective development.
• Take ownership of projects and is a driver who adds instant adrenaline and drives positive impact when placed on projects and teams.
• Participate in team roadmap discussions & (good to have) propose long-term plans.
• Actively contribute to knowledge sharing within the team and participate in professional development activities.
  

Must Have Skills

• Experienced Sr Software Engineer having 7+ years of industry experience with strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience in building low-latency and high-throughput systems.
• Futuristic, the ability to look at the bigger picture, and the growing system needs.
• Growth-oriented, looking to increase impact, responsibility, and ownership over time
• Proven ability to own and drive complex systems end-to-end, with strong knowledge of team-owned services and the ability to collaborate and influence cross-team goals and roadmaps.
• Strong experience writing production Python and Golang code and working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Solid experience in system design and building resilient, scalable applications with an emphasis on operational excellence.
• Detail-driven and care about code quality, testing, and performance.
• Ability to make practical trade-offs and propose technical solutions, including writing technical design documents and leading their adoption.
• Strong understanding of service health, monitoring, fault tolerance, and incident response practices.
• Strong communication skills and proven ability to work autonomously and asynchronously with remote collaborators and stakeholders.
• Strong communication and mentorship skills to influence team-wide engineering practices.
  
  

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience with Golang and Airflow orchestration.
• Platform as a product experience.
• Familiarity with ChatGPT, Cursor and other GenAI productivity tools.
  
  

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