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# Senior Software Engineer - Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) at Abnormal

- **Company:** Abnormal
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://abnormal.ai/careers/jobs/7806743003?gh_jid=7806743003

## Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)

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 — 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 software development 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

## #LI-MZ1

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.

Abnormal 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](https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt3a076cfd9753fa1f/blt9cbda641db7c0045/6a1e3d3a66aea075cd33e462/AAP_and_EEO_Statement.pdf). If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please [click here](https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt3a076cfd9753fa1f/blt4eb3a265cc7b1ca9/6a1e3d3bfe33e73c16ff026b/EEOC_Know_Your_Rights_Oct_30_2025.pdf).

## About Abnormal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Abnormal Security uses behavioral AI to autonomously detect and stop sophisticated email attacks, account takeovers, and insider threats for enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Evan Reiser (CEO) and Sanjay Jeyakumar (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity (Cloud Email Security, Identity Security, AI Security)
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (over 25% of the Fortune 500)
- **Mission statement**: "Stop crime with AI and bring cybersecurity from the future to defenders today."

## Products & Services
- **Abnormal Behavioral Security Platform**: An AI-native, cloud-based platform that builds behavioral baselines for every user and entity in an organization to detect anomalies that indicate attacks.
  - **Email Security**: Autonomous detection and remediation of BEC, phishing, and account takeover attacks via API-based, cloud-native architecture. Deploys in 60 seconds with no MX changes.
  - **Identity Security**: Harden identities, detect compromise, and prevent insider threats by analyzing behavioral signals in real-time.
  - **Insider Threat**: Blocks fraudulent actors and malicious insiders by autonomously addressing anomalies.
  - **AI Security (Attune AI)**: Provides visibility and policy enforcement for all AI tools used within an organization, enabling AI governance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last reported Series D valuation was $2.6B in 2022)
- **Key Metric**: Over 25% of the Fortune 500 are customers. The company has stopped millions of attacks and saved billions in financial losses.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Insight Partners, Greylock Partners, Menlo Ventures, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund (strategic investor)
- **Growth Signals**: The company is AI-native from day one, with revenue growing rapidly. It is expanding its platform from email security into identity, insider threat, and AI governance. Headcount has grown significantly, and the company continues to hire across engineering, GTM, and operations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Behavioral AI Moat**: Unlike signature-based or rules-based security tools, Abnormal builds a unique behavioral baseline for every organization and user. This allows it to detect novel attacks that no other vendor sees.
- **AI-Native Operations**: The company doesn't just build AI products—it runs its entire business (product, CS, finance, HR) with AI agents, compounding its speed of innovation.
- **Deep Enterprise Trust**: Over 25% of the Fortune 500 give Abnormal the authority to autonomously make security decisions, a level of trust very few vendors achieve.
- **Founding Team Origins**: Founders came from adtech (building anomaly-detection AI at scale) rather than traditional cybersecurity, giving them an outsider's perspective that led to the behavioral AI approach.

## Strategic Focus
- **Platform Expansion**: Moving beyond email security into identity, insider threat, and AI security, building a unified behavioral security platform.
- **AI-First Product Development**: Using AI agents to compress product development cycles from quarters to weeks, rapidly launching new products.
- **Operational Efficiency**: Embedding AI across every internal function to drive automation and efficiency, allowing the company to scale without linear headcount growth.
- **Market Leadership**: Capitalizing on the wave of AI-generated attacks to position behavioral AI as the only viable defense.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: From day one, Abnormal has been remote-first. Employees have the choice to work from home, from hub offices, or from co-working spaces (WeWork). Async work is the default, with deliberate synchronous overlap time. [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture)
- **High Autonomy, High Accountability**: No micromanagement. Clear expectations. Growth is based on impact, not tenure or title. "You don't wait your turn." [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture)
- **AI-Native Work Environment**: Every employee, regardless of role, gets access to the best AI tools and is expected to use them. The company rebuilds work processes around what AI makes possible—not by bolting AI onto old workflows. [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture)
- **Compressed Growth Timeline**: Because everything moves fast with AI, impact that would take quarters elsewhere happens in weeks. One person can do what used to take a team. Outsized impact is rewarded proportionally. [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture)
- **Transparent and Direct Culture**: "We say what's true, even when it's uncomfortable." Leaders are accessible, teams share learnings openly, and new hires get real ownership immediately. [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/about)
- **Notable Perks**: Compensation is tied to impact, not role. The company offers flexibility as infrastructure, not a benefit. Employees see direct results from their work in a fast-growing, mission-driven company.

## Sources
1. [Abnormal AI - Official Website](https://abnormal.ai/)
2. [Abnormal AI - About Page](https://abnormal.ai/about)
3. [Abnormal AI - Careers & Culture](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture)
4. [Abnormal AI - Open Roles](https://abnormal.ai/careers/open-roles)
5. [Abnormal AI - What We Are](https://abnormal.ai/about/what-we-are)
6. [Crunchbase - Abnormal Security](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/abnormalsecurity)
7. [PitchBook - Abnormal Security](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/abnormal-security-168693-47)

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