Staff Backend Engineer, Licensing

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🔥 12 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 services representing customer purchases, packaging, enabled capabilities, entitlements, and usage limits • Design robust licensing and access-rule models and workflows for direct and MSP/MSPP accounts • Lead complex initiatives across services and customer-account models while remaining hands-on in implementation • Establish patterns for data correctness, safe migrations, API evolution, observability, and production support • Partner with Product and Engineering teams on requirements, integrations, and tradeoffs affecting customer access and usage • Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and technical writing • Own difficult production problems and drive improvements that reduce recurrence and operational burden • Provide hands-on technical leadership for NodeZero packaging, customer entitlements, and usage enforcement • Shape how licensing and entitlement capabilities scale across direct and partner accounts

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience • Substantial experience in backend services and APIs • Track record of leading architecture or technical direction for complex, production-critical systems • Strong experience with SQL, data modeling, distributed systems, and service reliability • Experience influencing technical decisions across teams and mentoring engineers • Excellent judgment balancing correctness, scalability, maintainability, and delivery speed • Deep experience building and operating backend services in Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript • Strong SQL and relational data modeling experience • Experience with API and service design for production systems • Experience building cloud-hosted services • Experience operating containerized applications such as Docker • Familiarity with Kubernetes or a comparable orchestrator • Experience with licensing, entitlements, subscriptions, usage metering, billing-adjacent workflows, or feature access controls is an advantage • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, account hierarchies, RBAC, or partner account models is an advantage • Experience with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, event-driven or distributed systems is an advantage • Familiarity with Kafka or other event-streaming systems, Temporal or Prefect, and production observability platforms is an advantage • Legally authorized to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles • Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family • Flexible vacation policy • Generous parental leave • Career development opportunities • Inclusive culture • Collaborative environment encouraging creativity and out-of-the-box thinking • Remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location • Up to 5% travel

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