Backend Lead: Message Detection

About Abnormal Security

User’s and companies are constantly under attack but Abnormal Security’s team and patented, ML-first, approach is redefining cloud security for the next generation. Our incredible team needs your help to keep ahead of the evolving threats facing the world.Our solutions help our customers protect their customers; as well as preventing direct losses and saving internal security teams’ time/headache. And our unique insights into: a user’s behaviors, their communication content, plus countless other real-time signals; help us detect, and mitigate, complex & adversarial attacks. We’re able to deliver these accurate and real-time capabilities with exceptional user experience and best-in-industry customer support. Our customers regularly refer new customers (and sometimes even join our team!), a sentiment echoed by exceptional customer reviews. We’ve built a world class team that combines exceptional engineers, serially-successful leaders, and security-industry veterans to build one of the most exciting companies in the industry. Come see what makes us so Abnormal!

Team & Work Summary:

Our Detection team powers our core ML/AI capabilities we leverage to detect and mitigate attacks. If you love challenging yourself - you’ll find our scale (1M+ QPS,10x YoY scale), sub-100ms latency constraints, high accuracy & precision requirements, and the “adversarial” nature of our technical problems will keep you constantly learning!

As a backend engineer on this team you could be tackling work on our data platforms or streaming infrastructure, or building high-throughput microservices in a distributed cloud environment to support green field products. You could also be improving the efficiency of our ML teams or real-time systems, enhancing our model serving architecture, delivering the next-generation of our training/retraining systems, or building the feature extraction systems that will help create new predictive models.

Who You Are:

• You lead by example and from the front
• You take a “principle-first” approach to building scalable, customer-centric solutions
• You’re looking for a “mission-first” company aiming to solve meaningful and pragmatic problems
• You’re looking to take ownership of your work and your growth
• You typically move quickly and autonomously, iterating on your learnings in real-time

To qualify, you’ll need:

• At least 5 years of production backend engineering experience
• Experience with scalable and performant systems to support ML/AI efforts & engineers
• To work in Python (and/or Go)
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals
• Experience leading teams on E2E enterprise-wide engineering projects

“Bonus Points” if you have:

• Strong experience with ML & Big Data technologies, like Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Flink, etc.
• Bring “Domain Expertise” building: anomaly detection systems, email security solutions, or working on anti-abuse, Privacy, or Trust & Safety teams
• You’d like to use your scalable, backend engineering experiences to make a positive impact on our important Mission.

Why Abnormal?

We’re on a serious mission to “protect the internet” and we’re adamant that building a great team will help us build a great product AND a great company! In addition to ensuring our compensation packages and benefits remain compelling to the caliber of talent we hire - we also seek to provide both clear career and personal growth opportunities. We’ve built a diverse and inclusive team that values the contributions and voice of all team members. Let’s chat about our team and opportunities - we’d love to show you just how GREAT being “Abnormal” can be!