Remote Staff Data Platform Engineer – Scalable DB/Graph

Horizon3; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision & dental

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Remote work

Job summary

Horizon3 is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Data Platform to own database architecture, reliability, and performance across NodeZero's data stores. You will shape the strategy for PostgreSQL, graph databases, and time-series systems, while writing production code and mentoring peers.

Your work ensures scalable data handling for thousands of pentests, with exposure to Kubernetes, cloud databases, and migration tooling. This is a remote role reporting to the Data Platform Engineering Manager.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering focused on database systems and data infrastructure.
• Expert PostgreSQL proficiency with production query tuning and replication handling.
• Experience with graph and time-series datastores and scale.
• Ability to design zero-downtime migrations and schema governance.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for Horizon3 database systems across schemas and data models.
• Own query performance and observability to catch regressions early.
• Lead reliability, backup validation, capacity planning and incident response for data stores.
• Design and own migration framework enabling safe production schema evolution.
• Serve as database expert for application teams; review schemas and patterns.
• Mentor engineers through design and code reviews.

Skills

Database engineering

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Go or Python

Graph databases

Tools

Neo4j

TimescaleDB

ClickHouse

RDS/Cloud SQL

Go

Python

Job description

Horizon3 is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Data Platform to own database architecture, reliability, and performance across NodeZero's data stores. You will shape the strategy for PostgreSQL, graph databases, and time-series systems, while writing production code and mentoring peers.

Your work ensures scalable data handling for thousands of pentests, with exposure to Kubernetes, cloud databases, and migration tooling. This is a remote role reporting to the Data Platform Engineering Manager.