Senior Software Engineer - Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)

With identity now serving as the main attack vector for up-to-date enterprises, having complete visibility to understand every identity in your environment and proactively eliminate risk before it's exploited is more essential than ever. As one of Abnormal's fastest-growing divisions, ISPM is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive the technical roadmap and guide an engineering team in developing the next generation of identity security defenses.

About the Role

This is a hands-on technical leadership role at the intersection of identity security and distributed systems engineering. You'll write code, design systems, set technical standards, and mentor engineers — while partnering closely with Product Management to define what we build next.

You'll own the full stack: backend services that continuously evaluate millions of identity configurations, a frontend used daily by enterprise security teams, and the data infrastructure that powers posture scoring and proactive risk remediation.

What You'll Do

Technical Strategy & Leadership

- Direct the ISPM technical roadmap by converting product requirements into robust system designs, mapping out implementation phases, and making strategic build-vs-extend decisions.

- Architect, design, and scale core identity security posture systems.

- Cultivate and drive cross-functional technical alliances with platform teams across the security and identity stack.

- Author, review, and evaluate technical design documents while facilitating architectural discussions and design reviews.

- Establish, promote,



and uphold engineering best practices across the sub-team, focusing on testing, code quality, API design, and observability.

Software Engineering & Architecture

- Construct and scale high-performance backend services using Go — including event-driven systems, REST/gRPC APIs, cron jobs, and integration layers.

- Build and maintain user-facing interfaces using React/TypeScript — focusing on policy dashboards, identity visualization, and mitigation workflows.

- Design, model, and optimize database schemas capable of handling large-scale multi-tenant identity workloads.

- Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka as a message queue to manage asynchronous workflows and ensure continuous evaluation of identity postures.

- Maintain operational reliability and service health through standard runbooks, feature flags, and robust monitoring setups.

Team Collaboration & Delivery

- Support, mentor, and guide a distributed team of 3-4 engineers located across India and Singapore.

- Collaborate closely with Product Managers and EM to align on technical strategy, prioritize roadmaps, and deliver quarterly key results and milestones.

- Own operational health for all services — on-call rotation, incident response, and SLO management





- Serve as the team representative during organizational alignment, review sessions, and client interactions.

Must-Have Qualifications

- 7+ years of software development experience, including at least 2+ years in a tech lead or senior technical leadership role

- Proven track record of mentoring engineers and elevating the overall technical standards of the team

- Exceptional system architecture skills—experienced in designing and running scalable, multi-tenant, event-driven distributed systems at scale

- Deep hands-on experience with Kafka or similar high-throughput event-streaming technologies

- Extensive backend production experience with Go—writing idiomatic services with clean design patterns, thorough testing, and robust error handling

- Production-level React and TypeScript skills, with the capability to drive and own user-facing features end-to-end

- Strong proficiency in SQL and PostgreSQL—including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for multi-tenant workloads

- Superb communication abilities—expert at detailing technical trade-offs to PMs, presenting architecture to leadership, and writing comprehensive design documents

- High tolerance for ambiguity—adept at making decisions with partial data and iterating quickly

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

- Experience in identity security, IAM, or security posture management - familiarity will be good.

- Background in cybersecurity products

- Experience with gRPC/Protobuf API design

- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development workflows and tools

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📌 Senior Software Engineer - Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) (Bengaluru)
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