Remote Senior Backend Engineer – Scalable ML & Security

VulnU; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Abnormal Security is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own complex feature delivery for the ATO platform. You will design and build scalable backend and ML systems, write resilient code, and drive end-to-end delivery with cross-functional teams.

Join a team focused on reliability, latency reduction, and rapid feature releases, collaborating asynchronously with product managers and engineers while mentoring peers in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience as a software engineer.
• Strong backend proficiency in Python with scalable production systems.
• Experience with large-scale system design and fault-tolerant apps.
• Relational databases and modern data storage technologies knowledge.
• Familiarity with service-to-service communication (gRPC, Kafka) and caching (Redis).
• AWS cloud services (S3, RDS) and deployment practices.
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Strong understanding of service health, monitoring, and incident response.
• Experience writing technical design documents and influencing adoption across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and iterate on scalable backend and ML systems, APIs, frameworks, and internal tools.
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex features that impact customer experience.
• Ensure stability, reliability, and operational excellence of critical systems.
• Write clean, testable, and resilient code with attention to edge cases and performance.
• Write and review technical design documents and influence adoption across the team.
• Participate in code and design reviews, and contribute to on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to align on specifications and priorities.
• Mentor peers and contribute to engineering practices across the team.

Skills

Senior engineer mindset

Attention to detail

System thinker

Strong collaborator

GenAI affinity

Tools

Python

Redis

Kafka

gRPC

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

AWS (S3/RDS)

Job description

Abnormal Security is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own complex feature delivery for the ATO platform. You will design and build scalable backend and ML systems, write resilient code, and drive end-to-end delivery with cross-functional teams.

Join a team focused on reliability, latency reduction, and rapid feature releases, collaborating asynchronously with product managers and engineers while mentoring peers in a distributed environment.