Senior Software Engineer - Backend (ISPM)

Abnormal AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Abnormal AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead hands-on development at the intersection of identity security and distributed systems. You will own backend services, frontend dashboards, and data infrastructure to support posture scoring and risk mitigation.

You will mentor a distributed team, set technical standards, and collaborate with product management to shape the roadmap. The role requires Go, React/TypeScript, and deep Kafka experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years backend experience with 2+ years in a tech lead or senior leadership role.
• Mentoring engineers and elevating technical standards.
• Strong architecture skills for scalable, multi-tenant distributed systems.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kafka or similar streaming tech.
• Production-level Go backend development with tests and robust error handling.
• Proficient React and TypeScript for user-facing features.
• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL with multi-tenant data modeling.
• Excellent communication; ability to present trade-offs to PMs/leadership.
• High tolerance for ambiguity and rapid iteration.

Responsibilities

• Direct the ISPM technical roadmap by translating requirements into designs.
• Architect and scale core identity posture systems.
• Drive cross-functional alliances with platform teams.
• Write, review, and evaluate design docs; lead architecture discussions.
• Establish engineering best practices across the sub-team.

Skills

Tech leadership

Mentoring engineers

Event-driven systems design

Kafka experience

Go programming

React/TypeScript

SQL & PostgreSQL

Communication

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Kafka

gRPC/Protobuf

PostgreSQL

React

TypeScript

Job description

Senior Software Engineer

With identity now serving as the main attack vector for modern enterprises, having complete visibility to understand every identity in your environment and proactively eliminate risk before it's exploited is more essential than ever. As one of Abnormal's fastest-growing divisions, ISPM is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive the technical roadmap and guide an engineering team in developing the next generation of identity security defenses.

About the Role

This is a hands-on technical leadership role at the intersection of identity security and distributed systems engineering. You'll write code, design systems, set technical standards, and mentor engineers — while partnering closely with Product Management to define what we build next.

You'll own the full stack: backend services that continuously evaluate millions of identity configurations, a frontend used daily by enterprise security teams, and the data infrastructure that powers posture scoring and proactive risk remediation.

What You'll Do

Technical Strategy & Leadership

• Direct the ISPM technical roadmap by converting product requirements into robust system designs, mapping out implementation phases, and making strategic build-vs-extend decisions.
• Architect, design, and scale core identity security posture systems.
• Cultivate and drive cross-functional technical alliances with platform teams across the security and identity stack.
• Author, review, and evaluate technical design documents while facilitating architectural discussions and design reviews.
• Establish, promote, and uphold engineering best practices across the sub-team, focusing on testing, code quality, API design, and observability.

Software Engineering & Architecture

• Construct and scale high-performance backend services using Go/Python - including event-driven systems, REST/gRPC APIs, cron jobs, and integration layers.
• Build and maintain user-facing interfaces using React/TypeScript - focusing on policy dashboards, identity visualization, and mitigation workflows.
• Design, model, and optimize database schemas capable of handling large-scale multi-tenant identity workloads.
• Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka as a message queue to manage asynchronous workflows and ensure continuous evaluation of identity postures.
• Maintain operational reliability and service health through standard runbooks, feature flags, and robust monitoring setups.

Team Collaboration & Delivery

• Support, mentor, and guide a distributed team of 3-4 engineers located across India and Singapore.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and EM to align on technical strategy, prioritize roadmaps, and deliver quarterly key results and milestones.
• Own operational health for all services - on-call rotation, incident response, and SLO management
• Serve as the team representative during organizational alignment, review sessions, and client interactions.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend experience, including at least 2+ years in a tech lead or senior technical leadership role
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and elevating the overall technical standards of the team
• Exceptional system architecture skills- experienced in designing and running scalable, multi-tenant, event-driven distributed systems at scale
• Deep hands-on experience with Kafka or similar high-throughput event-streaming technologies
• Extensive backend production experience with Go - writing idiomatic services with clean design patterns, thorough testing, and robust error handling
• Production-level React and TypeScript skills, with the capability to drive and own user-facing features end-to-end
• Strong proficiency in SQL and PostgreSQL - including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for multi-tenant workloads
• Superb communication abilities - expert at detailing technical trade-offs to PMs, presenting architecture to leadership, and writing comprehensive design documents
• High tolerance for ambiguity - adept at making decisions with partial data and iterating quickly

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience in identity security, IAM, or security posture management - familiarity will be good.
• Background in cybersecurity products
• Experience with gRPC/Protobuf API design
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development workflows and tools

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A note on AI in our process:
Abnormal AI uses AI-assisted tools to help our recruiting team prepare for candidate interviews. These tools analyze resume content and role requirements to suggest interview questions and areas for the interviewer to explore.They do not make hiring decisions or screen candidates automatically. Every decision about a candidacy is made by a person. Further, if your application is successful and Abnormal AI makes a conditional offer of employment, we will carry out pre-employment checks which must be successfully completed to progress to a final offer. All processes and pre-employment checks are in line with prevailing legislation and Abnormal AI's policies relevant to our security and privacy standards.

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