Staff Software Engineer - Platform & Infrastructure

Abnormal Security is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead foundational efforts across multiple areas of Platform Infrastructure. The ideal candidate will guide a high-performing team, shape the roadmap for a true self-service infrastructure platform, and drive ambitious technical projects that use AI to automate and elevate how we build and operate our systems.

Requirements

• Proven experience building and scaling data-intensive, distributed backend systems in high-growth environments.
• 5+ years as a Senior/Staff engineer building platforms, tools, or infrastructure that materially increase engineering velocity and reliability.
• A strong track record as a change agent—reshaping infra strategy and shipping impactful, self-service platform offerings in startup settings.
• Depth in at least two of the following three areas: Compute, Orchestration, Data Platform.
• Hands-on with our stack (or equivalent): Python, Golang, Terraform/Terragrunt, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, OpenSearch, AWS, Kubernetes.
• Strong IaC, observability, and SRE fundamentals (SLOs, error budgets, incident management, postmortems, capacity planning).

Benefits

• Bonus
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Benefits