# Staff Backend Engineer, Admin Experience at Horizon3.ai

- Company: Horizon3.ai
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://horizon3.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: US, Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $230K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-30
- Apply by: 2026-12-14
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/horizon3ai/fa04ce4f-8d73-428f-b13f-72e75a9d83b6?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/horizon3-ai-staff-backend-engineer-admin-experience/

## About the role

As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Admin Experience team, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership for NodeZero’s account administration capabilities. You’ll shape how services and APIs support user access, parent-child account controls, account settings, and related capabilities such as roles, access controls, and audit logs. You’ll lead complex changes to account and authorization models, helping teams preserve secure tenant boundaries while making administration easier for customers. 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
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including deep experience building production backend systems
- Track record of leading technical direction or architecture for complex services, APIs, or platform capabilities
- Strong experience with distributed or multi-tenant systems, data modeling, SQL, and production reliability
- Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and communicate architecture and tradeoffs clearly
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving the quality and consistency of engineering practices

Tags: Engineering

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