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title: 'Software Engineer II - Data Security at Abnormal'
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# Software Engineer II - Data Security at Abnormal

- **Company:** Abnormal
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $149k–$215k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://abnormal.ai/careers/jobs/7981482003?gh_jid=7981482003

## Job description

## About the Role

Abnormal AI is seeking a Software Engineer II with a strong interest in security and privacy to join the Data Security team. In this role, you will help protect customer data by implementing rigorous security and privacy standards along with robust governance practices. You will design, develop, and refine platform solutions that enforce strict authentication, authorization, and auditability (AAA) principles, ensuring all customer data access is properly verified, appropriately permitted, and comprehensively logged.

- A practical security mindset: The ability to identify and address security vulnerabilities across the entire software development and operations lifecycle.
- The ability to break down security and privacy challenges into practical technical solutions and lead their successful implementation.
- Skill and passion for leveraging AI-native approaches to enhance team workflows and engineering practices.
- The opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally with product engineering teams to seamlessly integrate security and privacy best practices into our microservice architecture, eliminating implementation overhead for development teams.
- The opportunity to flex and develop your leadership skills. Every member of the team is expected to lead within their project areas, regardless of level or title.

## What you will do

- Apply practical security principles and AI-native workflows to deliver technical solutions to end users as well as provide leverage for internal partner teams.
- Lead and deliver impactful enhancements for the Data Security team, enforcing security and privacy standards to support ongoing product and market expansion.
- Design and implement customer data governance solutions that enable security and privacy by design.
- Reconcile platform, security, and privacy requirements, building a secure platform that empowers global engineering teams to deliver high quality software at high velocity.

Must Haves

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (this isn’t “just another bullet point” on a job description; as a remote-first team and company, clear communication is essential to operating smoothly).
- 2+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Strong computer science and programming fundamentals.
- Experience with system design and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with Golang and Python programming languages.

## Nice to Have

- Knowledge of authentication, authorization, and data security/privacy problem spaces, best practices, and related technologies.
- Understanding of distributed computing, CAP theorem, and system design tradeoffs.
- BS degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field.

## #LI-NT1

Actual compensation will be determined based on several non-discriminatory factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Base salary range: $149,200—$214,500 USD

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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