The Opportunity:

Enterprises of all sizes trust Abnormal Security’s cloud products to stop cybercrime. These products are data intensive SaaS applications that depend on reliable, scalable, and secure access to data. This is where our Data Platform team fits in, enabling efficient, reliable and scalable data processing across both realtime and offline processing systems. Come lead the team empowering the rest of engineering to stop cybercrime as we expand our offerings across both clouds and regions. 

The Data Platform team is looking to add an Engineering Manager, who will report to our Director of Cloud Platform Engineering, Aaron Rolett, work alongside our CTO, Sanjay Jeyakumar, and collaborate with our world-class team. The individual in this role will have the opportunity to lead and grow our existing world class team of engineers as we define and build the next generation data platform. 

As an Engineering Manager on the Data Platform team you will be expected to: 

• Manage a team of ~5-8 backend/distributed system engineers (who work across Pacific/Easterntime zones) to deliver our data platform offerings across AWS, Azure work broadly across engineering to empower and delight our internal engineering customers. 
• Source, attract, and hire highly-technical software engineers, and grow this initial team into a larger org over the next one to two years 
• Have a strong framework to grow, mentor, and develop a driven team of engineers
  
  

Someone who might thrive in this role: 

• An Engineering Manager who wants to challenge themselves to manage a team building out the next generation data platform. 
• A tech lead who has always taken on and enjoyed mentoring and growing peers in a fast-paced, iterative environment. If you do not have direct management experience, we still expect that you would have thoughtful frameworks to deliver upon the expectations listed above. 
• An aspiring entrepreneur who wants to hone their already-strong soft skills and delight customers, all while staying agile enough to step into an engineering role if needed.
  
  

This position is not a fit for someone who: 

• Has not worked in, or would not like working in, an ambiguous environment. While Abnormal's flagship email security product has hit PMF, this team is navigating unknowns as we scale and will need someone who can guide others through uncertainty. 
• Does not have experience being a senior engineer or tech lead for a technically complex product. While you won’t be coding on a daily basis, we expect that you will be able to read code and hold a high bar for the engineering practices on our current team. 
• Is looking to manage managers. This person will only manage individual contributors for the next ~1 year. 
  
  

Requirements: 

• The ability to showcase how you’ve successfully evaluated and hired elite engineers 
• Frameworks to describe your coaching/management style, particularly for backend engineers, and how you’ve implemented those frameworks.
• Examples of how you’ve organized roadmaps in an agile environments to ensure on-track team delivery
• Examples of how you’ve delighted and managed customer expectations based on engineering capacity
• 5+ years of software engineering experience 
• Past exposure/expertise in 1 of data intensive applications, distributed systems or data platform technologies.
  
  

Preferred: 

• Experience working in a high-velocity environment
• Experience building enterprise/B2B products
• Experience partnering with Machine Learning partners
• Experience working/leading across time zones
• 1+ year of management and/or Tech Lead leadership experience
• Exposure to tools & technologies like: AWS, Kafka, search indexing, microservices, key value stores, batch data platforms (e.g Spark).
• Can read Python or Go (Golang)
  
  

There are a lot of opportunities for growth and career advancement–it’s up to you to own your career here. Some potential career paths for this role include: 

• Growing into a Senior Engineering Manager position
• Positioning yourself to be a Founder or early-stage executive
  
  

About Abnormal Security

We’re the world’s fastest-growing cybersecurity company, dedicated to making the world a safer place, one inbox at a time. Through applying ML, AI, and behavioral data science to the cybersecurity space, we’re leading the charge on protecting the modern workplace from all types of attacks. We operate from a customer-obsessed mindset, dedicated to creating a best-in-class product that delivers on its promise, and our customers love us for it. 

We take the same approach with our team as we do with our customers. We’re committed to designing an employee experience that provides interesting and challenging problems to work on in a supportive, low-ego environment. Our seasoned, successful leadership team is passionate about providing endless opportunities for every team member to learn and grow, and our entire company is committed to being 1% better every day. With 4.9 stars on Glassdoor and several recently announced workplace awards, our team thinks it’s going pretty well so far!

We know that it’s our team that makes us successful - and we’re just getting started! You can read more about our team here.

Our Values

Far from gathering dust in some forgotten corner, our values serve as our operating principles for every team member. We clearly define what values drive us, so our entire team works from the same foundation and understanding. From the CEO to the interns, all of us are held accountable to our VOICE Framework.

Our Benefits

Taking care of our team goes beyond the office. Our compensation and benefits philosophy is designed to put attract, motivate, and retain top talent:

Compensation targeted to the 75th percentile (for both base salary and equity)

If we want top performers to join and stay with us, we need to pay accordingly. We pay at the 75th percentile (for both base salary and equity) of our competitive market, and we benchmark to higher cost of living cities (such as San Francisco and New York) no matter where our team members live. We standardize our pay, meaning we pay for the role and level, not for any particular individual’s ability to interview or negotiate well.

Equity is an important part of our total comp strategy

When the company does well, we all do well. Equity is an important and exciting part of our total compensation strategy as a pre-IPO startup. We’re guided by the belief our team members should share in the financial success of our company and grant equity accordingly.

Unlimited PTO

All regular salaried team members enjoy unlimited PTO. We want team members to grow with us and a big part of that is making sure our team has the opportunity to rest and recharge. We also observe 12 holidays every year.

100% of healthcare premium costs covered

Taking care of our team goes beyond the office. We cover 100% of employee health care premium costs. If adding dependents, we contribute 75% of the health care premium cost, so you can be sure that you and your family are in the best possible health.

Remote-first 

Operating as a remote-first company means we get to work with talented folks, no matter where they live. We prioritize a balance of deep focus time with Zoom meetings, and regular in-person events.

As a fast growing startup, we continuously review, improve, and personalize our benefits offerings based on the team’s input. Don’t see something that’s important to you? Let us know!

Our Interview Process

We value transparency at Abnormal, and our interview process is no exception. You can read more about our interview process here.

Next Steps

If this job feels like something that’s a good fit for you, please apply via the link below. We can’t wait to meet you!

INCLUSION MATTERS: Abnormal Security is committed to creating a diverse work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Base salary range: $167,100 - $192,200 USD Annually 
Level: M3

At Abnormal Security certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits. Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons. We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. Learn more about our Compensation and Equity Philosophy on our benefits and perks page.