# Staff Backend Engineer, Licensing 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/a169e09f-57f7-4200-86cc-94d98e0fbd4f?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/horizon3-ai-staff-backend-engineer-licensing/

## About the role

As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Licensing, Usage & Entitlements team, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership for the services that manage NodeZero packaging, customer entitlements, and usage enforcement. You’ll shape how these business-critical capabilities scale across direct and partner accounts, and help ensure that the right products, capabilities, and limits are represented consistently. 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, with substantial experience in backend services and APIs
- Track record of leading architecture or technical direction for complex, production-critical systems
- Strong experience with SQL, data modeling, distributed systems, and service reliability
- Experience influencing technical decisions across teams and mentoring other engineers
- Excellent judgment in balancing correctness, scalability, maintainability, and delivery speed

Tags: Engineering

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