Software Engineer II, Platform Security

Company: Abnormal
Location: San Diego
Posted on: July 1, 2025

Job Description:

Abnormal Security is looking for a Software Engineer II who is a solid software developer with a strong interest in Security & Privacy to join the Platform Security team. The Platform Security team owns the Security and Privacy platform services and infrastructure to uphold industry standards for the company’s security posture and customer data protection. This role will design, develop, and release Secure Service to Service communication frameworks and toolings, Customer Data Security & Privacy workflows, and then integrate them with Security Operational analytics and auditing services to monitor, protect, and secure Abnormal infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have • Security mindset - ability to identify potential security flaws in any step of the software development lifecycle. • Ability to translate Security & Privacy requirements into technical requirements and drive end to end execution of the projects. • Opportunity to facilitate and drive cross team collaboration with product engineering teams to adopt security best practices and secure-by-design platform services and components. • Opportunity to grow into Senior Software Engineer on the team and deliver bigger scope, higher impact, and additional leadership responsibilities. What you will do • Own, lead, and deliver the Platform Security features, services, and components for Abnormal microservices such as Zero-Trust networking, Secure Service to Service communications, Customer Data Security & Privacy, Secret Management, etc… • Design and develop secure and scalable customer integration frameworks and toolings to integrate Abnormal ecosystem with external applications such as Salesforce, Slack, Github, Zoom, etc… to enable Secure by design Multi Product Platform. • Integrate Platform and Infrastructure components with Security Operational analytics and auditing tooling such as Okta, Dazz, Splunk, SIEM. • Utilize prior industry experience to contribute and deliver the Platform Security team and the Platform & Infrastructure division roadmap. • Reconcile Platform and Security requirements to build a secure platform while enabling global engineering teams to deliver high quality software at high velocity. • Contribute to vendor review and selection for related software purchases in key problem areas such as VPN solution, Just In Time access, and other Security monitoring tools. Must Haves • BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or other related engineering field. • 2 years of experience as a Software Engineer. • Strong Computer Science and programming fundamentals. • Experience with system design and cloud infrastructure. • Experience with Golang and Python programming languages. • Proven track record of leading feature development and delivering high quality software. Nice to Have • Knowledge of Authentication & Authorization and Network Security problem space, best practices, and related technologies. • Understanding of distributed computing, CAP theorem, and system design tradeoffs. • Ability to differentiate must-have versus nice-to-have Security and Privacy requirements.

Keywords: Abnormal, La Mesa , Software Engineer II, Platform Security, IT / Software / Systems , San Diego, California