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 a Senior Backend Engineer on the External Attack team, you'll contribute to the full set of backend services that power NodeZero's external pentesting capabilities, from architecture and development through deployment and production operations. You'll own parts of our core API, data processing and ETL pipelines, datalake, graph, along with the container orchestration and cloud infrastructure beneath it all. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
- 7+ yrs professional software engineering experience using modern object-oriented or functional languages (Python, Java, Go, Scala, C++, TypeScript, etc)
- Experience building and running workflow orchestration or distributed task-processing systems in production (for example Prefect, Temporal, Airflow, Celery, or similar)
- Hands-on experience designing and building high-throughput data processing systems and ETL pipelines
- Experience building applications on cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, using container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- We are a fully remote company, and this job may require up to 5% of travel to be successful
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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