Senior Engineering Manager, RVBM

Horizon3 AI

5d • $210,000 - $260,000 • Remote

About The Position

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.
As a remote first company, we require minimum 25Mbps consumer grade broadband connection.
We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM) organization — the set of teams that transform NodeZero’s offensive findings and external scanner data into a unified, attacker-validated view of risk.
This role requires a customer obsessed engineering manager and will have significant product ownership. You’ll own and scale the engineering teams behind NodeZero’s RBVM capabilities, including:
Vulnerability Management Hub (VMH) – centralizing exploitable weaknesses, attack paths, and fix verification into a single operational view.
Vulnerability Risk Intelligence (VRI) – ingesting data from scanners like Tenable/Qualys/Rapid7 and re-ranking based on exploitability, threat actor pressure, and business impact.
High-Value Targeting (HVT), Advanced Data Pilfering (ADP), and Threat Actor Intelligence (TAI) – capabilities that reason about “crown jewel” systems, sensitive data, and active adversaries to drive true risk-based prioritization.
Integrations & FixOps – pushing NodeZero outputs into systems like ServiceNow and Jira, and closing the Find–Fix–Verify loop for customers.
You’ll build and lead an organization that helps customers move from vulnerability lists to FixOps: fixing what matters most, and proving it.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading multiple backend/platform teams or an engineering org in a SaaS, cybersecurity, or cloud-scale environment.
• Track record of taking products from concept to market — including POCs, MVPs, launches, and iterative improvements — in partnership with Product and GTM.
• Comfort operating in an environment with limited dedicated PM capacity, including helping define direction, shaping roadmaps, and setting technical priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to manage concurrent initiatives and balance short-term delivery with longer-term platform and product investments.
• Familiarity with vulnerability management concepts, including vulnerability scanners (e.g., Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7), CVEs/CVSS, and the difference between “vulnerable” and “exploitable.”
• Experience or strong interest in risk-based approaches that combine exploitability, threat actor behavior, and business impact.
• Comfort collaborating with offensive security, detection/defense, or security operations teams.
• Highly technical background with expertise in software development and B2B SaaS multi-product platforms.
• Deep understanding of scalable backend architecture, data modeling, databases, and distributed systems.
• Experience with data pipelines and ETL systems, including performance, reliability, and observability considerations.
• Strong grasp of cloud infrastructure concepts (AWS, GCP, or Azure), DevOps, and resilience engineering.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to explain complex technical and risk concepts to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working cross-functionally with designers, developers, product managers, customer teams, and GTM.
• Strong documentation habits and a bias toward clarity, transparency, and alignment.
• Creative, self-motivated, highly energetic, detail- and results-oriented.
• “Learn-it-all” attitude, with curiosity about both offensive and defensive security domains.
• Strong ability to identify procedural and architectural gaps, implement best practices, and empower teams to ship high-quality features at high velocity.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building and hiring high performing engineering teams.
• Extensive experience in technical leadership and architectural decision-making for complex systems.
• Strong background in backend and/or platform engineering, with deep experience designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems.
• Expertise in at least one modern programming language (Python strongly preferred; Go, Java, C++, or similar also relevant).
• Familiarity with ETL pipelines, data flow orchestration, and database performance optimization (e.g., PostgreSQL, Neo4j, or equivalent).
• Experience working with analytics- or graph-heavy workloads, especially where relationships between assets, identities, and vulnerabilities matter.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and services (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including networking, compute, and storage fundamentals.
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code and deployment concepts (e.g., Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling).
• Experience with observability and monitoring stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
• Understanding of security and reliability best practices in a multi-tenant SaaS or cybersecurity environment.
• Knowledge of Linux-based systems (e.g., Ubuntu, Kali) and modern development practices for distributed services.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to cybersecurity industry standards, trends, and common attacker techniques is a plus.

Benefits

• Inclusive Team: We value diversity and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive.
• Growth Opportunities: Be part of a dynamic and growing team with numerous career development opportunities.
• Innovative Culture: Work in a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.
• Remote Work: We are a 100% remote company. Enjoy the flexibility to work in the way that supports you and brings out your best.
• Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive salary and benefits which includes health, vision & dental care for you and your family, a flexible vacation policy, and generous parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior