Abnormal AI · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer - Platform & Infrastructure
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$210K/yr - $247K/yr
5+ years expAbnormal AI is a company that focuses on stopping cybercrime through its cloud products. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead efforts in building and operating the core systems of their platform infrastructure, ensuring reliability and scalability while driving technical projects that leverage AI.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cyber SecurityEmailInformation TechnologyNetwork Security
Responsibilities
Shape the core areas of Platform Infrastructure such as compute (EC2/EKS, autoscaling, container runtime) and orchestration (Kubernetes, workload APIs, multi-cluster, policy/quotas), as well as data platform (streaming, batch, durable storage, data tooling)—with demonstrated depth in at least two of these
Design and drive platform architecture & roadmap to support Abnormal’s expanding AI/ML portfolio—scaling seamlessly across services, tenants, and regions
Partner deeply with product & ML workflows to make pragmatic trade-offs, accelerating our shift to a platform-first operating model and enabling self-service
Raise the bar on operational excellence (SLOs, availability, performance, incident response, change management, on-call hygiene) and help teams consistently meet it
Act as the team’s technical lead: define quarterly roadmaps, de-risk delivery, mentor engineers, and land high-leverage, cross-team initiatives
Champion AI-native software development, guiding teams on architecture, data gravity, feature stores, model/service interfaces, and evaluation pipelines
Own cost-conscious engineering, optimizing design and operations to balance performance, reliability, and spend (capacity planning, right-sizing, caching, storage tiers)
Instill strong platform product practices: crisp APIs, great docs, clear SLAs/SLOs, telemetry by default, and paved paths that increase developer velocity
Qualification
Required
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 (e.g., EC2, autoscaling, container runtimes, networking, security hardening), Orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes/EKS, controllers/operators, scheduling, policies, multi-cluster), Data Platform (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis/SQS; Spark/Databricks/DBT/Airflow; S3; PostgreSQL/MySQL; DynamoDB/RocksDB/Redis/OpenSearch; data governance/quality/lineage)
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)
Preferred
Experience building multi-tenant or regulated (e.g., FedRAMP-like) platforms, isolation boundaries, and guardrails
Background with feature stores, offline/online consistency, model serving, and evaluation/feedback loops
Prior leadership of cross-org migrations (e.g., to Kubernetes, event-driven architectures, or a unified data platform)
Benefits
Bonus
Restricted stock units (RSUs)
Benefits
Company
Abnormal AI
Abnormal AI is the leading AI-native human behavior security platform.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$534MKey Investors
Wellington ManagementCrowdStrike Falcon FundInsight Partners
2024-08-06Series D· $250M
2023-03-29Series Unknown
2022-05-10Series C· $210M
Leadership Team
Evan Reiser
Founder & CEO
Sanjay Jeyakumar
CTO, Co-Founder, and Head of R&D
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