Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Abnormal Security Corporation; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative cybersecurity company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Data Platform team. This role offers the chance to work with a world-class team, defining and building the next generation of data platforms. You'll tackle ambitious projects, enhance operational excellence, and empower engineering and data science teams with scalable solutions. With a commitment to mentorship and cross-functional collaboration, this position provides ample opportunities for growth into technical leadership roles. Join a fast-growing firm dedicated to protecting the modern workplace with cutting-edge technology and a flexible, inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive Compensation

Equity options

Flexible PTO

Generous Healthcare Coverage

Fully Distributed Workforce

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data-intensive applications and distributed systems.
• Strong background in building platforms and tools for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver data platform offerings across AWS.
• Build tooling and services for online storage platforms.

Skills

Data-intensive applications

Distributed systems

Mentoring engineers

Cross-team collaboration

Building platforms and tools

Online data storage systems

Tools

PostgreSQL

OpenSearch

Redis

RocksDB

DynamoDB

ElasticSearch

Kafka

Job description

Enterprises of all sizes trust Abnormal Security’s cloud products to stop cybercrime. These products are data intensive SaaS applications that depend on reliable, scalable, and secure access to data. This is where our Data Platform team fits in, offering scalable storage systems (PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, RocksDB, DynamoDB), as well as building services and tools to improve their operational excellence, and offering expertise to engineering and data science teams around usage of these systems at high scale.

The Data Platform team is looking to add a Senior Software Engineer. The individual in this role will have the opportunity to partner closely with our existing world class team of engineers as we define and build the next generation data platform, and execute on ambitious and challenging technical projects to deliver value to Abnormal and its customers.

There are a lot of opportunities for growth and career advancement – including growing into a Staff technical leadership role.

What you will do

• Define and deliver our data platform offerings across AWS to empower and delight our internal engineering and data science customers.
• Build tooling and services for our online storage platforms that will deliver self-serve capabilities for the team’s stakeholders.
• Work cross functionally with other engineering teams to identify scalability gaps in their data intensive systems, owning key areas from our charter, building and executing on plans to mitigate them.

Must Haves

• 6+ years of experience working on data-intensive applications and distributed systems.
• Strong background in building platforms, tools, and systems to serve the needs of engineering teams, empowering them to ship with velocity and reliability.
• Depth in one or more types of online data storage systems (relational, key-value, document-oriented, or columnar databases) either as an expertise provider or as a power user, in a high scale environment.
• Proven track record of being a change agent, defining and driving engineering initiatives that involve cross-team collaboration.
• Expertise in one or more key areas of the Data Platform online storage tech stack - relational DBs, RocksDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka.
• Excellent ability and strong desire to onboard and mentor other engineers.

About Abnormal Security

We're one of the world's fastest growing cybersecurity companies, on a mission to protect the modern workplace from the most pressing threats. Our AI-native technology was built from the ground up to tackle forward-looking security challenges, and our team works with bleeding-edge technology to keep our customers and their people safe as attacks grow ever more sophisticated.

Taking care of our team goes beyond the office. Our compensation and benefits philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and retain top talent: Competitive Compensation, Equity is an important part of our total comp strategy, Flexible PTO, Generous Healthcare Coverage for You and Your Family, Fully Distributed Workforce.

Inclusion Matters

Abnormal Security is committed to creating a diverse work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.