Software Engineer 2 – Backend Engineer

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🕒 May 8

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Abnormal Security

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501 - 1000 employees

Abnormal provides total protection against the widest range of attacks including phishing, malware, ransomware, social engineering, executive impersonation, supply chain compromise, internal account compromise, spam, and graymail.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain high-performance backend services using Python or Golang. • Build and optimize streaming architectures to handle live threat intelligence with low latency. • Implement and tune OpenSearch/Elasticsearch layers to ensure massive datasets are searchable and actionable. • Take high-level goals and translate them into technical specs and clean, maintainable code. • Manage your own deployments and infrastructure within AWS/EKS. • Use AI tools to speed up development cycles and automate routine backend tasks. • Work closely with the team to identify architectural gaps and proactively suggest improvements.

🎯 Requirements

• 3–5+ years of production experience in backend development and systems design. • Hands-on experience with Kafka, Kinesis, or similar message brokers/streaming platforms. • Proven experience working with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch at scale. • Deep familiarity with AWS (highly preferred) and mandatory production experience with EKS (Kubernetes). • Proficiency in Python or Golang and solid experience with Postgres. • Builder mindset: comfortable with 'zero-to-one' challenges and defining requirements when specs are loose.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.