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 Staff Backend Engineer on the Internal Attack team, you'll set technical direction for the backend systems that power NodeZero's internal pentesting capabilities, from architecture and development through deployment and production operations. You'll lead high-impact work across the services and data pathways that turn the attack team's knowledge-graph output into reliable customer-facing results, including the ETL pipelines, relational data model, SQL queries, GraphQL endpoints, and supporting APIs. 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
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience using modern object-oriented or functional languages (Python, Java, Go, Scala, C++, TypeScript, etc.)
- Demonstrated technical leadership on high-complexity backend or data-platform initiatives, including setting direction and delivering work across multiple teams or stakeholders
- Experience designing, building, and operating production data-processing, ETL, or distributed task-processing systems at scale
- Hands-on experience with backend APIs, relational data models, and SQL in production systems
- Experience building applications on cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and using container technologies such as Docker
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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