Remote WAF Platform Engineering Manager

Horizon3; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid & remote work

Health, vision & dental insurance

Equity

Flexible vacation policy

Parental leave

Job summary

Horizon3 is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Web Application Firewall validation and tuning team. You will own hiring, growth, and how the team works as it scales, partnering with a Staff-level Technical Lead and Product on sequencing of roadmaps.

This role requires deep WAF/domain security knowledge, SaaS leadership experience, and strong stakeholder management to deliver secure, scalable defense capabilities in production environments.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with WAF or application security to partner with domain experts.
• Proven experience leading highly technical backend or platform engineering teams in SaaS/cybersecurity environments.
• Track record delivering products under fixed dates with ambiguous requirements.
• Strong dependency and stakeholder management, with written risk reporting.
• Understanding of security and reliability in multi-tenant SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a backend/defensive engineering team with clear career paths.
• Translate firewall workflows into buildable requirements and product capabilities.
• Partner with a Staff-level Technical Lead on architecture and with Product on roadmap sequencing.
• Translate goals into sequenced deliverables and actively manage scope.
• Stay technically engaged to challenge assumptions and unblock the team.

Skills

WAF security expertise

Backend engineering leadership

SaaS/cloud-scale experience

Staff-level collaboration

Security operations background

Stakeholder management

Scope management

Incident response discipline

Tools

AWS WAF

Cloudflare

F5

Imperva

Akamai

FortiWeb

Job description

Horizon3 is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Web Application Firewall validation and tuning team. You will own hiring, growth, and how the team works as it scales, partnering with a Staff-level Technical Lead and Product on sequencing of roadmaps.

This role requires deep WAF/domain security knowledge, SaaS leadership experience, and strong stakeholder management to deliver secure, scalable defense capabilities in production environments.