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Staff Backend Engineer, MSSP

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

As a Staff Backend Engineer on the MSSP & TRPM team, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership for the NodeZero capabilities that enable partners to manage services across many customer environments. You’ll shape architecture for multi-tenant workflows, account hierarchies, delegated administration, client and sub-client management, and asset allocation or deprecation. You’ll guide designs that preserve tenant boundaries and give partners reliable ways to administer their customer relationships. 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 with backend systems and APIs
  • Track record of leading architecture or technical direction for production multi-tenant, platform, or distributed systems
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, service reliability, and security boundaries in customer-facing systems
  • Ability to influence decisions across teams, mentor engineers, and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly
  • Experience building and operating cloud-hosted services and taking ownership of production outcomes
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.

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