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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.\nAbout the Role\nThis 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.\nYou'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.\nWhat You'll Do\nTechnical Strategy & Leadership\nDirect the ISPM technical roadmap by converting product requirements into robust system designs, mapping out implementation phases, and making strategic build-vs-extend decisions.\nArchitect, design, and scale core identity security posture systems.\nCultivate and drive cross-functional technical alliances with platform teams across the security and identity stack.\nAuthor, review, and evaluate technical design documents while facilitating architectural discussions and design reviews.\nEstablish, promote, and uphold engineering best practices across the sub-team, focusing on testing, code quality, API design, and observability.\nSoftware Engineering & Architecture\nConstruct and scale high-performance backend services using Go/Python - including event-driven systems, REST/gRPC APIs, cron jobs, and integration layers.\nBuild and maintain user-facing interfaces using React/TypeScript - focusing on policy dashboards, identity visualization, and mitigation workflows.\nDesign, model, and optimize database schemas capable of handling large-scale multi-tenant identity workloads.\nImplement event-driven architectures using Kafka as a message queue to manage asynchronous workflows and ensure continuous evaluation of identity postures.\nMaintain operational reliability and service health through standard runbooks, feature flags, and robust monitoring setups.\nTeam Collaboration & Delivery\nSupport, mentor, and guide a distributed team of 3-4 engineers located across India and Singapore.\nCollaborate closely with Product Managers and EM to align on technical strategy, prioritize roadmaps, and deliver quarterly key results and milestones.\nOwn operational health for all services - on-call rotation, incident response, and SLO management\nServe as the team representative during organizational alignment, review sessions, and client interactions.\nMust-Have Qualifications\n7+ years of backend experience, including at least 2+ years in a tech lead or senior technical leadership role\nProven track record of mentoring engineers and elevating the overall technical standards of the team\nExceptional system architecture skills-experienced in designing and running scalable, multi-tenant, event-driven distributed systems at scale\nDeep hands-on experience with Kafka or similar high-throughput event-streaming technologies\nExtensive backend production experience with Go -writing idiomatic services with clean design patterns, thorough testing, and robust error handling\nProduction-level React and TypeScript skills, with the capability to drive and own user-facing features end-to-end\nStrong proficiency in SQL and PostgreSQL -including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for multi-tenant workloads\nSuperb communication abilities-expert at detailing technical trade-offs to PMs, presenting architecture to leadership, and writing comprehensive design documents\nHigh tolerance for ambiguity -adept at making decisions with partial data and iterating quickly\nNice-to-Have Qualifications\nExperience in identity security, IAM, or security posture management - familiarity will be good. \nBackground in cybersecurity products \nExperience with gRPC/Protobuf API design\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted software development workflows and tools\nA note on AI in our process: \n 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.\nAbnormal AI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. For our EEO policy statement please click here. 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