Senior Manager, Database Platform

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $242.3k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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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 Database Platform team responsible for the data infrastructure underpinning NodeZero pentests, findings, and reports • Hire, mentor, and grow a team of approximately eight engineers, including a Principal Engineer • Establish database engineering norms and a culture of ownership • Define the technical direction for NodeZero’s data platform with the Principal Engineer • Set schema design standards, query patterns, migration strategies, and scalability principles • Own SLOs for database availability, query latency, and data integrity across production environments • Drive oncall maturity and runbook quality • Establish schema review processes and data modeling standards • Ensure the data model evolves cleanly as new pentest capabilities ship • Collaborate with Data Ingestion, Security Research, and API Platform teams on data contracts, API design, and pipeline dependencies • Translate data platform needs from Security Research and Product into a prioritized engineering roadmap • Build the Database Platform team into a fully staffed, world-class data platform organization

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading teams that design, scale, and operate relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, and hybrid data stores in production at scale • Experience defining schema migration strategies for high-velocity production environments with zero-downtime requirements • Experience with multi-tenant data architectures, customer data isolation, row-level security, and data residency concerns • Strong understanding of query optimization, indexing strategies, EXPLAIN analysis, and connection pooling • Experience building or significantly growing an engineering team, including hiring and onboarding • Experience establishing engineering norms, schema review, data integrity standards, operational runbooks, and oncall rotation • Ability to drive architecture decisions through design documents, structured reviews, and consensus building • Ability to partner effectively with a Principal Engineer • Deep proficiency in Go, Python, or SQL • Production experience with PostgreSQL at scale, including partitioning, logical replication, pg_bouncer/pgpool, and read replicas • Experience with AWS data services such as RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, or ElastiCache • Kubernetes and containerized database operations, including stateful workload management • Familiarity with graph databases or time-series stores is a strong plus • Background in cybersecurity data, threat intelligence feeds, or vulnerability databases is a nice to have • Experience with SOC 2, FedRAMP, or GDPR/CCPA data handling requirements is a nice to have • Familiarity with BI tooling, OLAP workloads, or customer-facing analytics is a nice to have • Experience operating databases in multi-region or active-active configurations is a nice to have • Up to 5% travel may be required • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; sponsorship may be required to be addressed

🏖️ 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 and collaborative work environment • Remote work model • Competitive salary and benefits