Remote Federal Backend Engineer: GraphQL & ETL

Horizon3

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive team
Growth opportunities
Innovative culture
100% remote
Health, vision & dental insurance;flex

Job summary

Horizon3 is a fully remote cybersecurity company delivering NodeZero autonomous pentests for large, distributed environments. The Senior Backend Engineer will contribute to both user-facing features and platform stability, collaborating with multiple teams to deliver scalable data processing and secure solutions.

The role emphasizes owning concurrent initiatives, mentoring junior engineers, and continuously adopting new technologies in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
  • 7+ years professional software engineering experience with modern languages (Python, Java, Go, Scala, C++, TypeScript, etc).
  • Experience on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container tech (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Experience with Federally compliant systems (FedRAMP, IL4/5/6) and security clearances.

Responsibilities

  • Develop core product features in ETL and GraphQL to support data processing and retrieval.
  • Design and implement backend APIs in GraphQL for data interactions across components.
  • Build and maintain ETL pipelines for data processing and analytics.
  • Collaborate with frontend team to present data in a user-friendly format.

Skills

Software engineering
GraphQL
Cloud platforms
SQL
Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related

Tools

Docker
Kubernetes
Neo4j
PostgreSQL

Job description

Horizon3 is a fully remote cybersecurity company delivering NodeZero autonomous pentests for large, distributed environments. The Senior Backend Engineer will contribute to both user-facing features and platform stability, collaborating with multiple teams to deliver scalable data processing and secure solutions.

The role emphasizes owning concurrent initiatives, mentoring junior engineers, and continuously adopting new technologies in an Agile environment.

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