Engineering Manager, Internal Attack

horizon3ai; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

horizon3ai is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to guide a team developing automated internal network attack capabilities for a cybersecurity product. You will own the technical roadmap, review designs and code for safety, and mentor engineers across seniority levels to ensure production-ready attack tools.

The role emphasizes credibility in design and code reviews, strong communication, and the ability to translate security risks into clear guidance for engineering, product, and customers.

Qualifications

• Hands-on technical leadership with credibility in design and code reviews.
• Ability to lead a team spanning career levels through Staff and Principal engineers, with hiring and performance responsibilities.
• Ability to set and execute a technical roadmap aligned with product and engineering objectives.
• Strong understanding of internal network attack techniques and their application in hardened enterprise environments.
• Clear communication skills for explaining technical risks and attack paths to varied audiences.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and grow engineers working on internal network attacks across identity systems, Linux/Unix hosts, databases, and network infrastructure.
• Lead hiring, set expectations by level, provide regular feedback, conduct performance reviews, and create development plans.
• Build technical leadership across the team and share ownership of specialist knowledge and code reviews.
• Set the roadmap for internal attack coverage based on customer environments, organizational goals, and emerging techniques.
• Guide development of attack methods for hardened environments, including identity, credential, lateral movement, and hybrid cloud scenarios.
• Review designs and code for technical quality and production safety, and explain attack paths to engineering, product, and customer audiences.

Job description

Role overview

Lead the team responsible for developing and maintaining automated internal network attack capabilities in a cybersecurity product. This hands-on technical management role combines team growth and performance with roadmap ownership, technical review, and decisions about whether attack techniques can run safely and reliably in customer production environments. The focus is software that makes sophisticated security testing repeatable at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and grow engineers working on internal network attacks across identity systems, Linux and Unix hosts, databases, and network infrastructure.
• Lead hiring, set expectations by level, provide regular feedback, conduct performance reviews, and create development plans.
• Build technical leadership across the team and share ownership of specialist knowledge and code review.
• Set the roadmap for internal attack coverage based on customer environments, organizational goals, and emerging techniques.
• Guide development of attack methods for hardened environments, including identity, credential, lateral movement, and hybrid cloud scenarios.
• Review designs and code for technical quality and production safety, and explain attack paths to engineering, product, and customer audiences.

Requirements

• The available listing describes a hands-on technical leadership role requiring credibility in design and code reviews and the judgment to assess production safety.
• Ability to lead a team spanning career levels through Staff and Principal engineers, with responsibility for hiring, coaching, and performance.
• Ability to set and execute a technical roadmap aligned with product and engineering objectives.
• Strong understanding of internal network attack techniques and the ability to assess how they apply in hardened enterprise environments.
• Clear communication skills for explaining technical risks and attack paths to varied audiences.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote and hybrid arrangements are available depending on role and location.
• Full-time roles include stock options.
• Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, and parental leave.

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