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Senior Cyber Security Engineer

A fast-growing cybersecurity company building AI-native technology to protect the modern workplace from sophisticated security threats.
United States
$170,000 - $200,000
Security
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
5+ years of experience
AI · Cybersecurity
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Description For Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Abnormal AI, a rapidly growing cybersecurity company, is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to join their team in building cutting-edge security solutions. This role represents a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of security engineering and cloud infrastructure, focusing on developing and implementing robust security measures at scale.

The position combines deep technical security expertise with strong engineering fundamentals, requiring the successful candidate to architect and maintain integrations between cloud-native infrastructure and security tooling. As a senior IC-level role, you'll be responsible for leading threat modeling discussions, building automation workflows, and serving as a technical mentor to junior engineers.

The role offers an exciting challenge for security-minded engineers who are passionate about protecting modern workplace environments using AI-native technology. You'll work with cutting-edge tools and technologies, including AWS, Python, Go, and Kubernetes, while contributing to a mission-critical security platform.

Working at Abnormal AI comes with compelling benefits, including competitive compensation ($170,000 - $200,000), equity grants as a pre-IPO startup, comprehensive healthcare coverage, flexible PTO, and the opportunity to work in a fully distributed environment. The company maintains a strong focus on professional growth, offering regular in-person events and the chance to work with talented colleagues across the globe.

The ideal candidate will bring proven experience in security engineering or infrastructure security roles, strong programming skills, and the ability to influence and collaborate across teams. This role offers the perfect blend of technical challenge and leadership opportunity, making it an excellent choice for security engineers looking to make a significant impact in a fast-growing company.

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Responsibilities For Senior Cyber Security Engineer

  • Architect, build, and maintain integrations between cloud-native infrastructure and security tooling
  • Collaborate with Platform, Infra, and DevOps teams to build scalable preventative controls
  • Design and deploy automation workflows to correlate signals, enrich alerts, and auto-remediate known failure patterns
  • Lead threat modeling and security design discussions
  • Serve as a hands-on technical contributor during investigations or incidents
  • Mentor and support junior engineers
  • Evaluate and uplift security tooling across commercial and cloud-native capabilities
  • Define and track key posture metrics
  • Monitor adoption and usage metrics
  • Stay current with emerging AI platforms

Requirements For Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Kubernetes
Linux
  • Proven delivery in security engineering or infrastructure security roles
  • Hands-on experience with AWS Native tooling
  • Strong scripting and dev skills in Python and/or Go
  • Expertise in integrating or building tooling for SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability management
  • Experience deploying security controls via Infrastructure-as-Code
  • Comfortable investigating logs, tracing events, and contributing to incident analysis
  • Proven ability to influence and collaborate cross-functionally
  • Strong written communication and documentation skills
  • Background with using and securing container orchestration

Benefits For Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Equity
Mental Health Assistance
Parental Leave
  • Competitive Compensation
  • Equity grants as pre-IPO startup
  • Flexible PTO
  • 100% employee health care premium coverage
  • Up to 100% dependent health care coverage
  • 12 paid holidays
  • Fully distributed workforce
  • Regular in-person events