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Software Engineer - Backend - Behavioral Security Products

Abnormal AI· Behavioral Security Products
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About the role

Software Engineer focusing on backend and AI-powered components for Abnormal AI's Identity Threat Protection platform, combining hands-on backend development with ownership of features and production systems, including agentic and AI-powered workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and iterate on scalable backend and ML systems, APIs, frameworks, and internal tools.
  • Take ownership of well-scoped features and components, with guidance from senior engineers on more complex, cross-system work.
  • Contribute to the stability, reliability, and operational excellence of critical systems.
  • Write clean, testable, and resilient code with attention to edge cases and performance.
  • Contribute to technical design documents and participate in design discussions.
  • Participate in code and design reviews, and contribute to on-call rotations.
  • Help design and build LLM-powered features and agentic workflows as part of the ATO platform.
  • Integrate LLM APIs and agent frameworks into backend services, with attention to reliability, cost, latency, and evaluation.
  • Contribute to prompt design, tool/function-calling integrations, and guardrails for AI-driven components under senior engineer guidance.
  • Use GenAI coding assistants and agents as part of your own development workflow to accelerate delivery and testing.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to align on specifications and priorities.
  • Break down well-defined projects into clear executable steps and drive them to completion.
  • Contribute to roadmap discussions and share ideas for technical improvements.
  • Communicate effectively in an async-first environment, providing clarity on updates, challenges, and solutions.
  • Actively seek feedback and mentorship from senior engineers to accelerate your growth.

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of industry experience as a Software Engineer, with a track record of shipping production backend systems.
  • Solid backend proficiency in Python, with experience building and maintaining production systems.
  • Experience with system design fundamentals and building reliable, scalable applications.
  • Working knowledge of relational databases and modern data storage technologies.
  • Exposure to service-to-service communication (gRPC, Kafka) and caching (Redis) is a plus.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services (S3, RDS) and deployment practices.
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) is a plus.
  • Understanding of service health, monitoring, and incident response practices.
  • Comfortable writing technical documentation and contributing to design discussions.

Skills

Required:Backend development (Python)System designRelational databasesAWS (S3, RDS)Technical documentation
Nice to have:Service-to-service communication (gRPC, Kafka)Caching (Redis)Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
Last updated Sep 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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