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Abnormal AI · 1 month ago

Engineering Manager, Federal Operations

Abnormal Security is looking for an engineering leader to run the Federal Operations team. The role involves stabilizing and maturing the platform while managing a high-performing team to deliver reliable outcomes in a regulated environment.

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Responsibilities

Lead and grow Gov SRE to operate a secure, reliable, and scalable government environment (people leadership, hiring, coaching, performance, and culture)
Enforce SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call, and change management processes aligned to internal risk thresholds
Drive platform stabilization: reduce toil, harden baselines, improve observability, and shrink MTTR through runbooks, automation, and quality guardrails
Own safe delivery to the Gov environment: plan and orchestrate releases, change reviews, and rollbacks; improve CI/CD and IaC workflows for repeatable, auditable change
Build and prioritize an execution roadmap for Gov v2.0 launch (scale product enablement in Gov, reduce operational drag, and improve deployment lead time without increasing risk)
Improve cost, performance, and resiliency posture in GovCloud through architecture reviews, reliability testing, capacity planning
Report clear metrics, risks, and progress to stakeholders; proactively escalate blockers and propose mitigations

Qualification

SRE/Infrastructure EngineeringCloud Infrastructure (AWS)Kubernetes/ContainersTerraform/IaCCI/CD WorkflowsIncident ManagementChange/Release ManagementObservabilityAutomationGoal Setting/MetricsIncident ToolingTelemetryTeam HiringScalingCross-functional Collaboration

Required

7+ years in SRE/Infrastructure/Platform Engineering operating customer-facing services at scale
2+ years managing SRE/Infra/FedOps teams with on-call ownership

Preferred

Experience operating in AWS GovCloud
Hands-on leadership in incident management, SLOs/SLIs, observability, and change/release management
Practical experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), Kubernetes/containers, Terraform or similar IaC, and modern CI/CD
Strong cross-functional collaboration with Security/Compliance, Product & Eng, and GTM; excellent written/runbook documentation and stakeholder communication
Track record of automation that reduces toil and improves reliability, auditability, and developer productivity
Ability to set clear goals/metrics, manage a prioritized roadmap, and deliver outcomes through the team
Depth in incident tooling and telemetry (e.g., metrics, tracing, logging) and alert hygiene
Hiring and scaling a small team in a fast-moving, high-accountability environment

Benefits

Bonus
Restricted stock units (RSUs)
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Company

Abnormal AI

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Abnormal AI is the leading AI-native human behavior security platform.

H1B Sponsorship

Abnormal AI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (5)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$534M
Key Investors
Wellington ManagementCrowdStrike Falcon FundInsight Partners
2024-08-06Series D· $250M
2023-03-29Series Unknown
2022-05-10Series C· $210M

Leadership Team

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Evan Reiser
Founder & CEO
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Sanjay Jeyakumar
CTO, Co-Founder, and Head of R&D
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