Job Overview
Location
Remote - Canada
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 25, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Senior Software Engineer - App Foundations role at Abnormal Security Corporation, a remote position based in Canada, focused on owning and advancing core platform services that power all Abnormal products.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include designing, building, and operating high-performance backend services using Python/Django, Go, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, and ElasticSearch; leading end-to-end delivery of platform features; improving system reliability through SLOs and observability; contributing to the LLM inference platform (LMS); building AI-native internal tools; mentoring engineers; and collaborating across product, TPM, and peer platform teams.
- • The App Foundations team owns critical infrastructure including the MPP API, customer data model, Notifications Platform, License Entitlement, Package Management, Large Model Service (LMS), and MPP Go Service — enabling every product launch, scale, and customer interaction at Abnormal.
- • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and platform engineering while shaping how AI is leveraged as core infrastructure in an AI-native environment, with opportunities to lead technical design, influence team practices, and grow as a senior individual contributor.
🎯 Requirements
- • 5+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production services at scale
- • 4+ years on relevant tech stacks — Python (Django) and/or Go; MySQL / PostgreSQL; and hands-on experience with Kafka, Redis, and ElasticSearch
- • 3+ years supporting enterprise-class customers in production, including ownership of SLOs, on-call, and incident response
- • 2+ years of system design experience — demonstrated ability to design, document, and land non-trivial cross-team architectures
- • Proven experience leading multi-quarter projects end-to-end: tech design, implementation, launch, and post-launch operations
- • Demonstrated daily use of AI coding tools in your current workflow, with specific examples of improving team workflows beyond code generation
- • Strong written and verbal communication; proven ability to collaborate autonomously and asynchronously with remote stakeholders
- • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to work on AI-native platform infrastructure including the Large Model Service (LMS) and shape how LLMs are used in production
- • Ability to build and deploy AI-powered internal tools that automate workflows like ticket triage, on-call support, and post-mortem drafting
- • Clear path for technical leadership and mentorship without requiring a people management track
- • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including product, TPM, and peer platform teams on high-impact initiatives
- • Involvement in hiring processes to help grow the App Foundations team
- • Remote work flexibility based in Canada with a company that treats AI as core infrastructure
Skills & Technologies
About Abnormal Security Corporation
Abnormal Security Corporation provides cloud-native email security using behavioral AI to block business email compromise, phishing, malware, and socially-engineered attacks. The platform integrates via API with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, analyzing identity, content, and context to detect anomalies without altering mail flow. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company serves mid-market to Fortune 500 organizations, reducing risk, automating incident response, and providing visibility into human-targeted threats.
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