Engineering Manager, EDR

Royper Royco LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid & Remote Work

Competitive compensation (salary +equ

Equity

Health, vision & dental insurance

Generous parental leave

Job summary

Horizon3 AI seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the EDR remediation team, turning offensive learnings into defensive actions. You will manage a diverse backend engineering group, align architecture with product roadmaps, and drive scalable, secure SaaS capabilities in a hybrid/remote environment with Chicago presence.

The role emphasizes hiring and growth, setting clear career paths, and maintaining high technical and reliability standards in a multi-tenant SaaS platform.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with EDR or security operations to collaborate with domain experts.
• Proven experience leading highly technical backend/platform engineering teams in SaaS/cybersecurity.
• Track record delivering products under tight deadlines with ambiguous requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management across many engineering teams, documenting risks and tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow backend engineers and security practitioners with EDR expertise.
• Translate EDR workflows into buildable requirements and product capabilities.
• Partner with a staff-level technical lead on architecture and with Product on roadmap sequencing.
• Translate ambiguous goals into sequenced, deliverable work and actively manage scope.
• Remain technically engaged to challenge assumptions and unblock the team while delivering outcomes.
• Establish operational discipline: design reviews, release practices, on-call, and incident response.

Skills

EDR familiarity

Backend leadership

SaaS/Cybersecurity

Fixed-date delivery

Stakeholder management

Multi-tenant SaaS reliability

Job description

Application facts

• Application form: from 7 forms we checked, 1 asks for a cover letter; about 1 question only Horizon3 AI asks per form. What it asks
• Pay benchmark: Horizon3 AI postings that list pay show a $225K median (115 postings)

Get to Know Us

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.

What You'll Do

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our EDR remediation team. NodeZero proves which attacks work in a customer's production environment. This team closes the loop — turning

what we learn from offense into defensive action.

You lead a team of diverse skill sets and they work at different cadences and measure progress differently. Building an environment where those differences compound rather than collide is a central part of the job. You own hiring, growth, and how the team works together as it scales.

You partner closely with a staff-level technical lead who owns architecture, with Product on sequencing, and with engineering leaders across the organization. This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who has moved beyond hands-on coding but still has the depth to evaluate a design, challenge an estimate, and know when a team is stuck.

In this role, you will:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers and security practitioners with deep EDR expertise, with clear career paths for each.
• Help the team turn EDR workflows into buildable requirements and usable product capabilities.
• Partner with a staff-level technical lead who owns architecture, and with Product on roadmap and sequencing.
• Translate ambiguous goals into sequenced, deliverable work, and manage scope actively rather than absorbing it.
• Stay technically engaged enough to challenge assumptions and unblock the team, while creating outcomes through engineers rather than serving as the primary implementer.
• Establish the operational discipline this work requires: design review, release practices, on-call, and incident response.

What You'll Bring

• Familiarity with EDR or security operations sufficient to partner effectively with domain experts.
• Proven experience leading highly technical backend or platform engineering teams — ideally within a SaaS, cybersecurity, or cloud-scale environment.
• Track record delivering products under a fixed date, where requirements were ambiguous and scope had to be actively managed rather than assumed.
• Strong dependency and stakeholder management across many engineering teams, with a habit of surfacing risks and tradeoffs early and in writing.
• Understanding of security and reliability best practices in multi-tenant SaaS.
• Experience partnering with a staff-level technical lead, with a clear sense of where management ends and technical ownership begins.
• Ability to hold a quality or safety bar under schedule pressure, and to elevate scope tradeoffs rather than absorb them.

Preferred

• Familiarity with agentic or LLM-backed systems in production, and a realistic view of how they fail.
• Background in security operations, detection engineering, or offensive security.
• Experience leading a platform team whose customers were other internal engineering teams.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures or streaming platforms (Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, Flink, or similar).

Perks of Horizon3

• 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.
• Hybrid & Remote Work: We embrace a mix of remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location, including our Chicago office, where some roles require regular in-office presence.
• Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive salary, equity and benefits. Our benefits include health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family, a flexible vacation policy, and generous parental leave.

Compensation and Values

At Horizon3, we believe that our people are our greatest asset, and our compensation philosophy reflects this core value. We are committed to fostering an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and rewarded for their contributions. Our compensation structure is designed to be fair, competitive, and transparent, ensuring that every team member is recognized and compensated equitably across roles, levels, and locations.

In accordance with various State’s transparency regulations, we provide the following salary range information for this position:

• Base salary range: $225,250- $265,000 annually. The exact salary will be determined based on the selected candidate’s location, qualifications, experience, and relevant skills.
• Additional compensation: All full-time roles are eligible for an equity package in the form of stock options.

You Belong Here

Horizon3 is not just an equal opportunity employer - we are a community that values diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental principles of our culture and success. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status by law.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion means we strive to attract, develop, and retain a workforce that reflects the varied communities we serve. We believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation and strengthen our ability to create cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions. At Horizon3, every team member is valued and supported in an environment that encourages personal and professional growth.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we encourage all qualified individuals to apply. Come be a part of Horizon3, where your unique contributions are recognized, and your potential is limitless.

Other Duties

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