Startups · AI

Senior Backend Engineer, Licensing

Horizon3.ai · US, Remote · Remote

← All jobs
About Horizon3.ai

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 Licensing, Usage & Entitlements team, you’ll build the services that determine what NodeZero customers have purchased, which capabilities are enabled for them, and how usage limits apply. You’ll own meaningful work across product packaging, entitlements, and usage workflows for direct and partner accounts. Because these systems affect customer access and downstream product behavior, you’ll focus on correctness, clear service contracts, and reliable operation. 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 a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend software
  • Experience with a modern backend language such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript
  • Experience designing APIs and data models for business-critical services or customer-facing workflows
  • Strong SQL and relational database experience, including data integrity and production troubleshooting
  • Experience with cloud-hosted services and containerized applications such as Docker, familiarity with Kubernetes or a comparable orchestrator
More about this role

Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find, 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 IT Ops/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs.

We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers & operators, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools and 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.

As a...

Read the full posting on Horizon3.ai's site ↗

Engineering

Build your edge while you search

Free tools for founders and investors, plus VC Unfiltered, our take on startups, venture and the people who build them.