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Software Engineer 1, Product Engineering -… at Abnormal AI · San…
Entry LevelHybridFull-timeSan Francisco, CA$128k–$150k/yr
Skills
software developmentdata-intensive systemsai-native developmentdebuggingiam experiencegopythontechnical designhigh-quality softwareproblem solvingcollaboration
Job Description
Summary: Abnormal AI is a company focused on securing identities in the cloud and AI systems. They are seeking a Software Engineer 1 to build discovery and protection for machine identities, collaborate across teams, and drive innovation in identity security solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Build discovery, classification, monitoring, and protection for machine identities and their agentic actions
- Ship guardrails and policy engines that enable safe automation while preventing misuse, escalation, and anomalous behavior
- Create high‑availability pipelines that ingest and correlate identity, authorization, and behavioral signals from cloud, SaaS, IAM/SSO, and audit logs
- Drive 0→1 iteration: prototype quickly, test assumptions, learn from usage, and scale simple solutions
- Collaborate across security, platform, and data teams; write and review technical designs; and participate in core SDLC rituals
Required Qualifications:
- 1+ years building software applications
- Experience productionizing large‑scale, data‑intensive systems
- High velocity and creativity in solving technical challenges
- Experience & desire to adopt & improve AI-native development workflows
- Strong debugging with logs, metrics, and signals
- Ability to translate business requirements into high‑quality software
- Ability to independently solve complex problems and work cross‑functionally
- BS in CS/SE/IS or related field
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Go and Python
- Experience in IAM, non‑human/machine identities, secrets management, workload identities, OAuth/OIDC, SCIM, SSO, or policy engines
- Experience in cybersecurity or related industries
- Experience with big data, statistics, and ML for identity/behavioral risk modeling
Required Skills: Software development, Data-intensive systems, AI-native development
Important Skills: Debugging, IAM experience, Go, Python
Nice-to-Have Skills: Technical design, High-quality software, Problem solving, Collaboration
Benefits: Bonus, Restricted stock units (RSUs), Benefits
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