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Software Engineer 2 - Identity Security

Abnormal Security is an AI-native email security platform that uses behavioral data science to protect enterprises from the widest range of email attacks.

Abnormal Security

Employee count: 501-1000

Salary: 149k-175k USD

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About the Role

(This position requires you be in the SF Bay Area, you will be expected to work roughly 25% in office)

At Abnormal Security, we safeguard the world's largest enterprises from cybercrime. We protect our customers against adversaries who are constantly evolving their techniques and tactics to outwit and undermine the traditional approaches to Email Security. That’s what makes our novel behavioral-based approach so…Abnormal. Abnormal has consistently been named as one of the top cybersecurity startups, and our behavioral AI system has helped us win various cybersecurity accolades. We’ve built our reputation brand through an industry-leading email security solution, which is currently trusted to protect more than 20% of the Fortune 500. Now is the time for Abnormal to expand our ambitions and potential to add even more value for our customers beyond email.

As a Software Engineer 2 on our new Identity Security initiatives, you’ll build protections for non‑human identities across complex enterprise environments. This is a 0→1 product team that requires a creative, incubator mindset—rapid prototyping, tight feedback loops, and comfort with ambiguity. You will work under the top engineers in the company, gaining significant mentorship and growth through close collaboration and rigorous design practices.

What you will do

  • 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.

Must Haves

  • 2+ 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.

Nice to Have

  • 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.

At Abnormal AI, 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.

Base salary range:
$148,800$175,000 USD

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. If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please click here.

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Salary: 149k-175k USD

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At Abnormal Security, we are at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, pioneering a revolutionary approach to protect the modern enterprise from the most sophisticated and damaging email attacks. Through our groundbreaking, AI-native human behavior security platform, we are fundamentally transforming how organizations defend against threats that exploit human vulnerability. Our core technology leverages advanced machine learning and behavioral data science to create a precise, identity-based understanding of every individual within and outside an organization. This allows us to detect subtle anomalies in communication patterns, relationships, and business processes that signal a potential attack, stopping threats that traditional security solutions miss. We are not just building another security product; we are engineering a new paradigm of defense that is autonomous, adaptive, and capable of anticipating and neutralizing never-before-seen attacks in real-time.

Our commitment to innovation extends beyond our core detection engine. We are building a comprehensive security platform that provides complete protection across the entire cloud email environment. This includes inbound email security to block phishing, malware, and social engineering attacks; robust protection against internal and external account takeovers; and full security operations center (SOC) automation to streamline threat response and reduce manual effort. By integrating seamlessly with major cloud platforms like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace via a simple API, we provide immediate value without disrupting email flow. The team at Abnormal Security is composed of industry veterans and bright minds from leading technology companies like Google, Twitter, and Amazon, all driven by a shared passion for solving the most critical challenges in cybersecurity. We are dedicated to building a future where organizations can operate securely and confidently in an increasingly complex digital world, empowered by the intelligence and autonomy of our AI-driven platform.

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Access to mental health resources.

401K

Abnormal Security offers a 401K plan.

Virtual lunch budget

Monthly virtual lunch budget for employees.

Flexible PTO

All regular salaried team members enjoy unlimited PTO.

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