Senior Software Engineer - Product Data Gateway

At Abnormal AI, we are on a mission to safeguard the world's largest enterprises against email and collaboration application cyber security attacks.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Multi-Product Platform (MPP) and founding engineer of the team, you'll create the standardised data layer that becomes our single source of truth , the one governed path through which any system, agent, or interface can reach data from across every product.

Responsibilities

Technical Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Design, build, and iterate on the APIs and services that make up the standardized data access layer.
• Drive adoption of API-gated data sources, so product teams expose their data once and every consuming surface can reuse it.
• Design and implement standard labeling for data ownership, and build the validation logic that checks incoming requests against it.
• Own reliability, latency, and operational excellence for a high-throughput, low-latency system on the critical request path.
• Make early architectural calls and codify them in technical design docs the team aligns on.
• Establish the team's engineering practices , testing, code/design review, on-call, and CI guardrails , and the patterns future hires inherit.

Teamwork & Collaboration

• Communicate effectively in an asynchronous manner with team members to provide updates, discuss challenges, and propose solutions.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to align on how they'll adopt the shared data layer.
• Take ownership of projects and act as a driver who adds instant adrenaline and drives positive impact when placed on projects and teams.
• Mentor engineers as the team grows, and influence roadmap and long-term planning.
• Actively contribute to knowledge sharing within the team and participate in professional development activities.

Requirements

• Experienced Sr Software Engineer with 7+ years of industry experience and strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Futuristic, with the ability to look at the bigger picture and anticipate growing system needs.
• Growth-oriented, looking to increase impact, responsibility, and ownership over time.
• Proven ability to own and drive complex systems end-to-end, with strong knowledge of team-owned services and the ability to collaborate and influence cross-team goals and roadmaps.
• Strong experience writing production Python and Golang code and working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Solid experience in system design and building resilient, scalable applications with an emphasis on operational excellence.
• Detail-driven and cares about code quality, testing, and performance.
• Ability to make practical trade-offs and propose technical solutions, including writing technical design documents and leading their adoption.
• Strong understanding of service health, monitoring, fault tolerance, and incident response practices.
• Strong communication skills and proven ability to work autonomously and asynchronously with remote collaborators and stakeholders.
• Strong communication and mentorship skills to influence team-wide engineering practices.