Software Engineer 1 - Cloud Infrastructure

About the role

This role designs, builds, and operates core compute and business-critical infrastructure for Abnormal's product platform across AWS and Azure, and partners with product and application engineering teams. It suits an early-career engineer with 1-2 years of cloud infrastructure experience for microservice-based production systems and hands-on Python, Terraform, AWS or Kubernetes exposure.

What you'll do

• Design, build, test, scale, monitor, and maintain secure, cost-efficient infrastructure in a multi-cloud environment (AWS and Azure)
• Develop, evolve, and operate infrastructure as code for repeatable, auditable, and scalable system provisioning
• Take part in technical design discussions and provide constructive reviews
• Contribute as a core member of an agile team with strong ownership and teamwork
• Partner with product and application engineering teams to understand platform needs and deliver developer-friendly infrastructure abstractions
• Participate in an on-call rotation to learn customer pain points, identify systemic gaps, and drive long-term reliability improvements
• Reduce technical debt and operational toil by addressing root causes, automating repetitive work, and shaping roadmap investments
• Use AI as a primary tool to explore, design, and ship solutions, and to automate repetitive work and toil; improve docs, runbooks, and AI skills for the team

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 1-2 years of experience engineering cloud infrastructure for microservice-based systems in production, accounting for performance, reliability, security and cost
• 1+ years of experience with Python
• 6 months to 1 year of experience with at least 2 of: Terraform, AWS (or equivalent public cloud services), Kubernetes
• Experience with mature software development practices, including source control, testing, and deployment
• Experience with on-call rotations, incident response, and operating production-grade systems
• Experience using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex) in daily engineering work, with judgment to validate, simplify, and reject AI-generated output
• Strong communication skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, remote-first environment, balancing autonomy with collaboration, bias toward action, and a positive mindset

Nice to have

• Experience with Bash, Golang, and Terragrunt
• Prior experience building large-scale infrastructure-as-code abstractions
• AWS certifications

Benefits listed by Abnormal

• Bonus or incentive compensation eligibility
• Equity eligibility
• Comprehensive benefits package

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