Software Engineer 2 - Development Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

Abnormal AI empowers businesses of all sizes to combat cybercrime through our innovative cloud products. To achieve our mission, we're building a suite of interconnected security solutions on a unified platform, designed to operate flawlessly in global data centers.

🏢 About Abnormal AI

Abnormal AI empowers businesses of all sizes to combat cybercrime through our innovative cloud products. To achieve our mission, we're building a suite of interconnected security solutions on a unified platform, designed to operate flawlessly in global data centers.

🎯 The Role

The Development Infrastructure team plays a critical role in multiplying the impact of our product teams. We create an environment that fosters high-quality software development, and engineering excellence. This team has become instrumental in the success of our engineering organization.

You are someone who:

• Thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment
• Possesses a passion for helping others build world-class systems
• Demonstrates exceptional teamwork skills
• Embraces continuous learning and enjoys tackling complex problems

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, multi-component features and systems of the Development Infrastructure team's offerings, and shape the roadmap for this area.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD infrastructure and tools for Engineering to develop and ship their changes reliably with less effort.
• Design and implement enhancements to GHA infrastructure, base Docker images and build/deploy pipelines with improvements in scalability, performance and costs.
• Use AI tools to explore and compare solutions, and adapt the generated changes to real production constraints, weighing system complexity and long-term maintainability.
• Take ownership of on-call issues, including complex issues where the root cause is unclear, and fix the systemic gaps behind them.
• Participate in planning, code reviews, standups, and other aspects of the software development life cycle, and coach other engineers on the team.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer building backend systems and/or platforms.
• 2+ years of experience working with Python.
• Experience delivering complex projects end-to-end in a cloud native environment.
• Experience building or operating CI/CD, build, or deployment systems in production, including on-call and incident response.
• Understanding of distributed systems, containerization and microservices.
• Practical experience using Generative AI tools in day-to-day engineering workflows.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD systems.
• Experience with GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Go.
• Experience with Bazel.
• Experience working on or with teams like “Engineering Effectiveness”, “Engineering Productivity”, “Development Experience”, “Development Infrastructure” or similar.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with Generative AI tools such as Codex and Claude, and experience driving AI-first workflows and solutions.

🎁 Benefits

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

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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.