Software Engineer 1 - Cloud Infrastructure

Overview

Software Engineer 1 on the Platform & Infrastructure team, designing, building and operating the core compute and business-critical infrastructure services that form the foundation of Abnormal's product platform.

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 to support repeatable, auditable and scalable system provisioning.
• Participate in technical discussions and provide constructive design reviews.
• Contribute as a core member of an agile team with a strong sense of ownership and teamwork.
• Partner closely with product and application engineering teams to understand platform needs and deliver well-designed, developer-friendly infrastructure abstractions.
• Participate in an on-call rotation with a learning-oriented mindset, gaining insight into customer pain points, identifying systemic gaps and driving long-term reliability improvements.
• Drive down technical debt and operational toil by addressing root causes, automating repetitive work and shaping roadmap investments.
• Use AI as a primary way to explore, design and ship solutions, and to automate repetitive work and operational toil.
• Improve team and system context (docs, runbooks, AI skills) so AI-assisted work gets better for everyone.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 1-2 years of experience engineering cloud infrastructure solutions for microservice-based systems in production environments, accounting for optimal performance, reliability, security and cost.
• 1+ years of experience with Python.
• 6 months - 1 year of experience with at least 2 of these areas: Terraform, AWS (or equivalent public cloud provider services), Kubernetes.
• Experience working within 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 the judgment to validate, simplify and reject AI-generated output that doesn't hold up in production.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, remote-first environment, balancing autonomy with collaboration, demonstrating a bias toward action, and maintaining a positive, constructive mindset.

Nice to have

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

Details

• Location: Remote, USA.
• Base salary range: $122,400 - $176,000 USD, with potential bonus or incentive compensation, equity and a comprehensive benefits package.