Remote Lead, Database Platform Engineering

OpenKrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 242,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive Team

Growth Opportunities

Innovative Culture

Hybrid & Remote Work

Competitive Compensation

Job summary

Horizon3 is seeking a senior leader to run the Database Platform team, owning design, operation, and reliability of the core data layer. You will guide a team of ~8 engineers including a Principal Engineer, shaping scalable data infrastructure for NodeZero's millions of assets and vulnerability findings.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and setting engineering standards for high-velocity, data-intensive systems. Remote-friendly with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading teams that design, scale, and operate relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and hybrid data stores (graph, time-series, or document) in production at scale.
• Experience defining schema migration strategies for high-velocity production environments with zero-downtime requirements.
• Experience with multi-tenant data architectures: customer data isolation, row-level security, and data residency concerns.
• Strong understanding of database performance: query optimization, indexing strategies, EXPLAIN analysis, and connection pooling.

Responsibilities

• Team Building & Culture: Hire, mentor, and grow the Database Platform team to full capacity, establishing ownership standards.
• Data Architecture: Define technical direction for NodeZero's data platform, including schema design standards and scalability principles.
• Reliability & Operations: Own SLOs for availability, latency, and data integrity; improve on-call maturity and runbooks.
• Data Modeling & Schema Governance: Establish schema review processes and data modeling standards for evolving data models.
• Cross-team Partnership: Align with Data Ingestion, Security Research, and API Platform on data contracts and pipelines.
• Act as a Product Owner: Translate data platform needs into a prioritized engineering roadmap.

Skills

Go

Python

SQL

PostgreSQL

Graph databases

Timeseries/analytical stores

Kubernetes

Job description

Horizon3 is seeking a senior leader to run the Database Platform team, owning design, operation, and reliability of the core data layer. You will guide a team of ~8 engineers including a Principal Engineer, shaping scalable data infrastructure for NodeZero's millions of assets and vulnerability findings.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and setting engineering standards for high-velocity, data-intensive systems. Remote-friendly with travel as needed.