Engineering Manager, WAF & Cyber Defense

horizon3.ai; United States; Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive Team

Growth Opportunities

Innovative Culture

Hybrid & Remote Work

Competitive compensation and benefits

Job summary

Horizon3.ai is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Web Application Firewall validation, effectiveness, and tuning team. You’ll build a scalable, security-focused backend group, partner with architectural leadership, and drive roadmaps with Product across SaaS environments.

The role emphasizes hands-off leadership, hiring and growth, and maintaining high security and reliability across multi-tenant platforms, with a hybrid/remote work model and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with WAF or application security to partner with domain experts.
• Proven experience leading highly technical backend or platform engineering teams.
• Track record delivering products under fixed dates with ambiguous requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a backend engineering and security team with career paths.
• Turn firewall workflows into buildable requirements and product capabilities.
• Partner with a Staff-level Technical Lead on architecture and with Product on roadmap.
• Translate ambiguous goals into sequenced, deliverable work and manage scope.
• Stay technically engaged to challenge assumptions and unblock the team.
• Establish design review, release practices, on-call and incident response discipline.

Skills

WAF familiarity

Backend leadership

SaaS experience

Security operations

Stakeholder management

Cloud-scale engineering

Job description

Horizon3.ai is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Web Application Firewall validation, effectiveness, and tuning team. You’ll build a scalable, security-focused backend group, partner with architectural leadership, and drive roadmaps with Product across SaaS environments.

The role emphasizes hands-off leadership, hiring and growth, and maintaining high security and reliability across multi-tenant platforms, with a hybrid/remote work model and competitive compensation.