Staff Backend Engineer – Admin Experience

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $230k - $270k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Horizon3.ai

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Horizon3. ai is a cybersecurity company that specializes in autonomous penetration testing through its platform, NodeZero. The company's mission is to proactively identify and address attack vectors before they can be exploited, allowing organizations to continuously assess their security posture across various environments including cloud, IoT, and on-premises systems. Founded by veterans from the US Special Operations and National Security sectors, Horizon3. ai offers a self-service SaaS solution that provides organizations with insights into their security vulnerabilities without requiring persistent or credentialed agents.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction for backend services and APIs supporting user access, account hierarchies, settings, and administration workflows • Lead architecture and implementation of cross-cutting work involving authorization, tenant boundaries, and safe evolution of customer account models • Remain hands-on in production code while guiding design decisions, technical tradeoffs, and delivery across the team • Raise standards for API quality, testing, security, observability, rollout practices, and operational readiness • Partner with Product and adjacent teams to align interfaces and keep administration capabilities consistent across NodeZero • Mentor and influence engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and technical documentation • Diagnose complex production issues and drive improvements that prevent recurrence • Build and improve NodeZero account administration capabilities for user access, parent-child account controls, account settings, roles, access controls, and audit logs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including deep experience building production backend systems • Track record of leading technical direction or architecture for complex services, APIs, or platform capabilities • Strong experience with distributed or multi-tenant systems, data modeling, SQL, and production reliability • Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and communicate architecture and tradeoffs clearly • Experience mentoring engineers and improving the quality and consistency of engineering practices • Deep experience building backend services in a modern language such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript • Strong experience with SQL and relational data stores, API design (REST or GraphQL), and cloud-hosted production services • Experience with containerized services such as Docker and with testing and operational practices for customer-facing systems • Experience with RBAC, SSO, account hierarchies, delegated administration, auditability, or identity and access management • Experience with PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, feature flags, and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry • Experience in cybersecurity or a customer-facing SaaS platform with complex tenant models • Ability to travel up to 5%

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles • Career development opportunities • Collaborative environment encouraging creativity and out-of-the-box thinking • Health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your family • Flexible vacation policy • Generous parental leave • Fully remote work

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