Senior Software Engineer, Pentest Experience
About The Position
Horizon3.ai is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build product experiences that help customers understand, prioritize, and act on risk in their environments. The role owns meaningful product work end-to-end in close partnership with Product, Design, and other engineers. It is approximately 80% backend focused and 20% frontend focused, and calls for independent project delivery, proactive risk management, strong execution, code reviews, and collaborative problem solving. The engineer will build and ship product capabilities across backend services, APIs, and modern web application stacks. They will own moderate-to-large projects from scoping and technical design through implementation, rollout, and iteration; contribute to clear, maintainable, performant user-facing experiences; and help improve engineering quality, team execution, and the customer experience. This is a fully remote company role that may require up to 10% travel for team project kickoffs and an annual company meeting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong professional experience building and operating production software across the full stack of application development.
- Experience building distributed backend services using a modern language such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, TypeScript, or similar.
- Experience building backend services on AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with Docker and containerized applications.
- Experience designing and operating APIs, services, and asynchronous or event-driven systems.
- Production experience with SQL-based relational databases.
- Experience with data modeling and persistence layers for product-grade backend systems.
- Knowledge of observability, reliability, and operational best practices for production services.
- Frontend development experience using modern JavaScript or TypeScript with frameworks such as React, Angular, or similar.
- Ability to independently drive substantial work from requirements gathering through delivery while coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication, technical judgment, engineering execution, and pragmatic problem-solving skills.
- Product-minded approach, comfort balancing multiple workstreams and priorities, and ability to work effectively under ambiguity.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with PostgreSQL and performance tuning for large datasets.
- Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j, or interest in learning them.
- Experience building or consuming GraphQL backends.
- Experience with ETL pipelines and data processing tools, such as Airflow-like frameworks, custom ETL jobs, or similar.
- Experience building products or platforms in vulnerability management, exposure management, security telemetry, or related cybersecurity domains.
- Experience with scoring or recommendation algorithms and data-intensive products.
- Experience partnering closely with product managers to define and sequence an MVP while preserving future options.
- A track record of shaping technical direction across an organization beyond a single team or domain.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship product capabilities spanning backend services, APIs, and modern web application stacks.
- Own moderate-to-large projects end-to-end, including scoping, technical design, implementation, rollout, and iteration.
- Help implement user-facing experiences that are clear, maintainable, performant, and aligned with product requirements and design direction.
- Partner with Product, Design, and adjacent engineering teams on cross-functional initiatives.
- Identify and resolve technical risks, blockers, and mis-scoped work proactively.
- Communicate technical topics, tradeoffs, delivery risks, and implementation choices clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute to architectural and design discussions, emphasizing maintainability, operability, and long-term team productivity.
- Write high-quality code, tests, and technical documentation, and provide constructive code reviews.
- Support and mentor less experienced engineers through feedback, onboarding, and day-to-day collaboration.
- Improve engineering quality, team execution, and the product experience through ownership and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Equity package in the form of stock options for full-time roles.
- Health insurance for employees and their families.
- Vision insurance for employees and their families.
- Dental insurance for employees and their families.
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Generous parental leave.
- Career development opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
