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Senior Software Engineer, Pentest Experience

Horizon3.ai · US, Remote · Remote

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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

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and help build product experiences that enable customers to understand, prioritize, and act on risk in their environments. This role is for a strong senior engineer who can own meaningful product work end-to-end, partnering closely with Product, Design, and peer engineers to deliver outstanding customer experiences. 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
  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Experience building distributed backend services using at least one modern language, such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, TypeScript, or similar
  • Experience building backend services on a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and familiarity with Docker and containerized applications
  • Designing and operating APIs, services, and asynchronous or event-driven systems
  • Experience working with SQL base relational databases in production
More about this role

Horizon3.ai 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.

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