Remote Go Backend Engineer, API Platform

horizon3ai; United States; A distancia; USD 149.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Inclusive team

Growth opportunities

Innovative culture

Hybrid & remote work

Competitive compensation

Descripción de la vacante

Horizon3 is a fully remote cybersecurity company delivering the NodeZero platform. The Software Engineer on the API Platform team builds the internal API layer connecting NodeZero’s services and powering the interfaces that customers rely on.

This role directly influences reliability, latency, and developer experience of the service mesh. You’ll join a small team anchored by a P5 technical lead and a P4 senior engineer, shipping against a roadmap that includes API consolidation, versioning, rate

Formación

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend services.
• Proficiency in Go or strong motivation to ramp quickly — Go is the primary language on this team
• Solid understanding of REST API design principles and HTTP semantics; experience with gRPC is a plus
• Ability to reason about service reliability: latency, error rates, retry behavior, and circuit breaking

Responsabilidades

• Implement and maintain API endpoints, middleware, and platform services in Go
• Build and evolve the API gateway layer — routing, authentication, rate limiting, and request/response shaping
• Write and maintain API contracts (OpenAPI/gRPC definitions) and communicate breaking changes to internal consumers
• Contribute to service reliability: monitoring, alerting, SLA tracking, and incident response for platform APIs
• Write clear, reviewable code with tests that cover both the happy path and failure modes
• Collaborate with Data Ingestion, Integrations Platform, and Client Platform teams who consume the APIs you build

Conocimientos

Go programming

REST API design

gRPC

Kubernetes

Docker

API authentication

Code testing

Team collaboration

Herramientas

OpenAPI

protobuf

Docker

Descripción del empleo

Horizon3 is a fully remote cybersecurity company delivering the NodeZero platform. The Software Engineer on the API Platform team builds the internal API layer connecting NodeZero’s services and powering the interfaces that customers rely on.

This role directly influences reliability, latency, and developer experience of the service mesh. You’ll join a small team anchored by a P5 technical lead and a P4 senior engineer, shipping against a roadmap that includes API consolidation, versioning, rate