Engineering Manager, EDR

horizon3ai; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical coverage

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

horizon3ai is seeking a technical engineering manager to lead backend/platform teams focused on turning security assessment findings into practical EDR capabilities. You’ll guide engineers and security specialists, shape how the team grows, and coordinate delivery with product partners and a senior technical lead who owns architecture.

This role is remote, full-time, and emphasizes enabling the team over coding, with responsibility for roadmap delivery, design reviews, and incident response

Qualifications

• Leads backend/platform teams in a highly technical environment.
• Has familiarity with EDR or security operations contexts.
• Delivers projects on fixed dates while managing ambiguity and scope.
• Manages stakeholders and dependencies across engineering groups.
• Understands security and reliability practices for multi-tenant SaaS.
• Collaborates with a senior technical lead on architecture and planning.

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers and security practitioners with growth paths.
• Translate EDR workflows into usable product requirements and delivery plans.
• Coordinate roadmap and priorities with product, the technical lead, and engineering partners.
• Track dependencies, manage scope, and flag delivery risks early.
• Establish design review, release, on-call, and incident response practices.
• Stay engaged in technical decisions to unblock the team.

Skills

Team leadership

EDR/security ops familiarity

Delivery against fixed dates

Stakeholder management

Security reliability practices

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

Kinesis

Flink

Job description

Role overview

Lead an engineering team that turns findings from security assessments into practical endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities. You’ll guide backend engineers and security specialists, shape how the team works as it grows, and coordinate delivery with product partners and a senior technical lead who owns architecture. This is a technical management role focused on enabling the team rather than being its primary coder.

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers and security practitioners, with clear growth paths.
• Translate EDR workflows and ambiguous goals into usable product requirements and sequenced delivery plans.
• Coordinate roadmap and priorities with product, the technical lead, and engineering partners.
• Track dependencies, manage scope, and raise delivery risks and tradeoffs early.
• Establish design review, release, on-call, and incident response practices.
• Stay engaged in technical decisions to challenge assumptions and help unblock the team.

Requirements

• Experience leading backend or platform engineering teams in a highly technical environment.
• Enough EDR or security operations familiarity to work effectively with domain experts.
• A record of delivering to fixed dates while managing ambiguity and scope.
• Strong stakeholder and dependency management across engineering teams.
• Understanding of security and reliability practices for multi-tenant SaaS.
• Experience partnering with a senior technical lead and maintaining quality under schedule pressure.

Nice to have

• Background in security operations, detection engineering, or offensive security.
• Experience with production agentic or LLM-backed systems, including their failure modes.
• Leadership of an internal platform team or exposure to event-driven systems such as Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, or Flink.

Benefits and work setup

The role is remote. Full-time employees are eligible for stock options; the listing also mentions medical coverage, flexible vacation, and parental leave.