Senior Software Engineer – Backend, Behavioral Security Products
Abnormal Security
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDockerGRPCKafkaKubernetesPythonRedis
About the role
- Design, build, and iterate on scalable backend and ML systems, APIs, frameworks, and internal tools.
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex features that directly 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.
- Break down complex projects into clear executable steps and drive them to completion.
- Actively contribute to roadmap discussions and propose long-term technical plans.
- Communicate effectively in an async-first environment, providing clarity on updates, challenges, and solutions.
- Mentor peers, share knowledge, and influence engineering practices across the team.
Requirements
- 7+ years of industry experience, with proven expertise as a Senior Software Engineer.
- Strong backend proficiency in Python, with experience designing and scaling production systems.
- Proven experience with large scale system design, building resilient, scalable, and fault-tolerant applications.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases and modern data storage technologies.
- Familiarity with service-to-service communication (gRPC, Kafka) and caching (Redis).
- Experience with AWS cloud services (S3, RDS) and deployment practices.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
- Strong understanding of service health, monitoring, and incident response practices.
- Experience writing technical design documents and influencing adoption across teams.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Pythonbackend developmentlarge scale system designrelational databasesdata storage technologiesgRPCKafkaRedisAWSDocker
Soft skills
communicationmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvinginfluencingattention to detailproject managementtechnical writingleadershipadaptability