Software Engineer II – Critical Email Products
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Job Description
Backend engineer building scalable event-driven services for Abnormal, an AI-native cybersecurity company protecting enterprises from advanced email attacks. Driving feature parity for legacy email gateway replacement.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain backend services powering CEP's product surface
- Design and evolve event-driven pipelines, including Kafka consumers and Airflow DAGs, processing email traffic reliably at enterprise scale
- Work across a multi-tenant, multi-cloud deployment footprint serving M365 and Google Workspace customers and FedRAMP environments
- Leverage AI-augmented development tools to explore solutions, refine outputs, and deliver reliable production outcomes faster
- Collaborate with product and cross-functional partners to iterate quickly on features that move customers from legacy SEGs to Abnormal
- Contribute to service reliability, observability, and operational quality as the team scales its product surface
Requirements:
- 3+ years of professional experience in software development
- Backend development experience with Python or Golang
- Experience building scalable, enterprise-grade applications
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Knowledge of containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong fundamentals in computer science, data structures, and performance optimization
- Experience with AI development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Claude
- Experience with event-driven systems such as Kafka, SQS, or similar message queue / stream processing patterns
- Familiarity with email delivery pipelines, email authentication standards (DMARC, DKIM, SPF), or email security products
- Exposure to multi-tenant SaaS architectures or enterprise integrations (M365, Google Workspace APIs)
- Experience improving service reliability, observability, and operational tooling in production systems
- Prior work in cybersecurity, email security, or compliance-adjacent domains
Benefits:
- AI-assisted recruiting tools are used to prepare for candidate interviews; they do not make hiring decisions or screen candidates automatically
- Conditional offers are subject to successfully completed pre-employment checks
- Equal opportunity employer

















