Engineering Manager, Admin Experience

Horizon3

9d•$225,000 - $265,000•Remote

About The Position

The Engineering Manager will lead the Admin Experience engineering team, which builds backend capabilities that help NodeZero customers securely administer their organizations. The team’s domain includes user access, parent-child account controls, account settings, roles, access controls, audit logs, and other administration capabilities. The manager sets team direction and creates the conditions for engineers to deliver customer-facing features while maintaining reliable production services. The role partners with Product and adjacent engineering teams to translate customer needs into a roadmap and balance feature delivery with operational ownership and long-term platform health. The manager leads, coaches, and develops engineers; establishes team ownership, goals, priorities, and feedback practices; and contributes to hiring and onboarding. They guide technical direction for backend services, APIs, data models, and authorization boundaries, and set expectations for quality and operational readiness. The role is fully remote in the United States and may require up to 10% travel. The stated annual base salary range is $225,000–$265,000. Full-time roles are eligible for stock options. Benefits include health, vision, and dental insurance, a flexible vacation policy, and generous parental leave.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience leading software engineers delivering production backend services or SaaS platform capabilities.
Strong technical background in backend architecture, APIs, data modeling, and production operations, with the ability to engage in design and code reviews.
Experience with identity, access control, multi-tenant systems, account hierarchies, or comparable administration capabilities.
Experience hiring, onboarding, coaching, and developing engineers.
Ability to set clear priorities, manage concurrent initiatives, and guide a team through ambiguity and changing needs.
Coaching-oriented leadership style that supports hiring, onboarding, feedback, and engineer growth.
Sound judgment balancing customer impact, security, delivery speed, reliability, and longer-term technical health.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with Product, engineering, and customer-facing partners.
Hands-on, quality-focused approach to design reviews, production operations, and technical documentation.
Experience guiding teams that build backend services in a modern language such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.
Working knowledge of SQL and relational data stores, REST or GraphQL API design, and cloud-hosted services.
Familiarity with containerized applications such as Docker and production engineering practices including automated testing and observability.

Nice To Haves

Experience with RBAC, SSO, audit logs, delegated administration, or customer-facing admin consoles.
Experience with AWS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, feature flags, and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
Experience in cybersecurity or another technically complex, customer-facing SaaS environment.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and grow the Admin Experience engineering team, establishing clear ownership, goals, priorities, and feedback practices.
Partner with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to shape the roadmap for user access, account hierarchies, account settings, and administration workflows.
Guide technical direction for backend services, APIs, data models, and authorization boundaries, helping the team make sound tradeoffs.
Balance feature delivery with production support, on-call responsibilities, and investment in platform reliability and maintainability.
Set expectations for quality and operational readiness, including tests, safe rollout practices, observability, design documentation, runbooks, and support materials.
Recruit, onboard, mentor, and develop engineers; recognize and retain high performers.
Coordinate with partner teams so administration workflows remain secure and consistent across NodeZero.
Lead horizontally with peer management and senior leaders.