Remote Staff Backend Architect (Multi-Tenant Platform)

Horizon3; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Flexible vacation policy

Parental leave

Equity program

Job summary

Horizon3 is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for NodeZero capabilities across customer environments. You will shape architecture for multi-tenant workflows, tenant isolation, and partner administration while guiding delivery with cross-functional teams.

You will mentor engineers, own production issues, and drive improvements for reliability and security, with a focus on Python/Go, APIs, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field; equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including backend systems and APIs.
• Track record of leading architecture or technical direction for production multi-tenant, platform, or distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, service reliability, and security boundaries in customer-facing systems.
• Ability to influence decisions across teams, mentor engineers, and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Experience building and operating cloud-hosted services and taking ownership of production outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for partner and multi-tenant platform services, including account hierarchies, tenant isolation, delegated administration, and partner workflows.
• Lead architecture and implementation of complex capabilities for client and sub-client management, asset allocation or deprecation, and partner administration.
• Define patterns for secure data boundaries, API design, reliability, observability, and operational readiness.
• Remain hands-on in complex technical work and help teams make decisions when requirements or tradeoffs are ambiguous.
• Partner with Product, customer-facing teams, and adjacent engineering groups to align platform capabilities with partner needs.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and technical documentation.
• Own complex production issues and drive improvements that strengthen service reliability and prevent recurrence.

Skills

Python

Go

SQL

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

APIs

Multi-tenant architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Horizon3 is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for NodeZero capabilities across customer environments. You will shape architecture for multi-tenant workflows, tenant isolation, and partner administration while guiding delivery with cross-functional teams.

You will mentor engineers, own production issues, and drive improvements for reliability and security, with a focus on Python/Go, APIs, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.