Horizon3 uses real-world attacks to safely show what attackers can actually do in your environment—so you can fix and prove what matters. Backed by NEA.
About the role
As Director of Engineering, Threat Research, you’ll lead the engineering teams behind NodeZero Rapid Response and Threat Hunting products. Rapid Response turns emerging vulnerability and threat signals into fast, safe, customer-specific validation, helping customers understand what is exploitable in their environments and what to do next. Threat Hunting helps customers investigate whether the attack paths NodeZero discovered were already used: who got in, where they moved, and what they did. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience with production software engineering and at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or a comparable language
- Understanding of engineering practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and operational readiness
- Ability to evaluate technical designs and establish quality controls for security-sensitive, customer-facing systems
- Deep practical experience in at least one relevant discipline—such as vulnerability research, exploitability analysis, threat hunting, incident response, or detection engineering—and the
- Familiarity with SOC, threat-hunting, or incident-response workflows, security telemetry, attack techniques, and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
- Direct leadership experience in vulnerability research, exploit development, threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, or security product engineering
More about this role
Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZeroTM platform, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across the largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by ITOps/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs.
We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools, false positives resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox” security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.
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