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 Staff Software Engineer, Backend to anchor the technical direction of the Assessment Experience team, transforming how customers work with NodeZero to secure their environment. Assessment Experience is part of the Proactive Offense engineering organization, which builds the core NodeZero product flow: hack, prioritize, fix, verify. 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 sustained ownership of production backend systems
- Experience building backend services in at least one modern language, such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript
- Strong SQL skills and production experience with at least one relational database, including complex joins, CTEs, window functions, and deliberate schema design
- Experience building backend services on a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with Docker and containerized applications
- Experience designing and operating APIs, services, and asynchronous or event-driven systems
More about this role
Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and 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 ITOps/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs.
We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools, 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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