Engineering Manager, Firewall Defense

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $225k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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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

• Lead the Firewall validation, effectiveness, and tuning team • Lead, mentor, and grow backend engineers and security practitioners with firewall and defensive expertise • Establish clear career paths for team members • Turn firewall workflows into buildable requirements and usable product capabilities • Partner with a Staff-level Technical Lead on architecture and with Product on roadmap and sequencing • Translate ambiguous goals into sequenced, deliverable work and actively manage scope • Stay technically engaged to challenge assumptions and unblock the team without serving as the primary implementer • Establish operational discipline including design review, release practices, on-call, and incident response • Own hiring, team growth, and collaboration as the team scales

🎯 Requirements

• Familiarity with firewall or network security sufficient to partner effectively with domain experts • Proven experience leading highly technical backend or platform engineering teams, ideally within a SaaS, cybersecurity, or cloud-scale environment • Track record delivering products under a fixed date with ambiguous requirements and actively managed scope • Strong dependency and stakeholder management across many engineering teams • Understanding of security and reliability best practices in multi-tenant SaaS • Experience partnering with a staff-level technical lead • Ability to maintain a quality or safety bar under schedule pressure and escalate scope tradeoffs • Working familiarity with enterprise firewall platforms such as Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Cisco, or Check Point (preferred) • Familiarity with agentic or LLM-backed systems in production (preferred) • Background in security operations, detection engineering, or offensive security (preferred) • Experience leading a platform team serving internal engineering teams (preferred) • Exposure to event-driven architectures or streaming platforms such as Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, or Flink (preferred) • Legal authorization to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles • Health, vision and dental insurance for you and your family • Flexible vacation policy • Generous parental leave • Career development opportunities • Inclusive culture • Collaborative and innovative work environment • Remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location

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