Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Admin & RBAC

Horizon3; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 199,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity package

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Remote work

Hybrid options

Job summary

Horizon3 is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Admin Experience team to build services and APIs that enable customers to securely administer their organizations. You will own multi-tenant workflows, roles, access controls, and audit logs, collaborating with Product, frontend, and partner teams to ensure reliable, understandable administration across the NodeZero platform.

The role emphasizes secure design, strong data modeling, and a track record of delivering production-ready backend

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing and operating backend services and APIs.
• Strong SQL and relational database experience.
• Experience building services on a cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and working with Docker or other containerized applications.
• Demonstrated focus on testing, production reliability, observability, and clear technical communication.
• Experience with learning new languages and frameworks as needed.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs for user access, account hierarchies, settings, and administration workflows.
• Own features from design and implementation through tests, safe rollout, observability, and production support.
• Apply secure authorization and data-modeling practices to customer and parent-child account relationships.
• Investigate production issues and improve service reliability, performance, and observability.
• Write and review maintainable code, automated tests, design documentation, runbooks, and support guidance.
• Partner with Product, frontend engineers, and adjacent platform teams to deliver cohesive customer workflows.
• Mentor teammates through design discussions, code reviews, and collaborative problem solving.

Skills

Backend engineering

SQL databases

Cloud platforms

Python

Go

RBAC

GraphQL

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s in CS/CE

Tools

Docker

PostgreSQL

Datadog

Job description

Horizon3 is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Admin Experience team to build services and APIs that enable customers to securely administer their organizations. You will own multi-tenant workflows, roles, access controls, and audit logs, collaborating with Product, frontend, and partner teams to ensure reliable, understandable administration across the NodeZero platform.

The role emphasizes secure design, strong data modeling, and a track record of delivering production-ready backend