Senior Backend & Data Platform Engineer — Real-Time, Remote

NightDragon Acquisition Corp.; United States; Remote; USD 141,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive Team

Growth opportunities

Innovative culture

Remote work

Health, vision & dental insurance

Flexible vacation policy

Generous parental leave

Job summary

Horizon3 is a remote-first cybersecurity company focused on real-time pentest data processing with NodeZero. We are building a ground-up streaming platform to handle hundreds of thousands of hosts and provide actionable insights at scale.

The Senior Engineer will own end-to-end rearchitecture, drive event-driven services, and partner with platform teams to ensure fidelity and operability in production.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4+ years of experience in software engineering or a similar role.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Go, including experience with large-scale codebases.
• Production experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) — schema design, migrations, and query performance at scale.
• Experience building and operating services in AWS or a comparable cloud, with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or similar) in production.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate event-driven services that process pentest data in real time.
• Take ambiguous, high-impact problems from 'we need to solve this' through design, implementation, rollout, and long-term operation.
• Help solve challenges around converting large per-pentest datasets into a cohesive story over time.
• Translate existing batch-era logic into streaming-friendly designs without regressing fidelity.
• Solve genuinely hard distributed systems problems at scale.
• Set a high bar for operational excellence — SLOs, instrumentation, alerting, on-call, and incident response.
• Raise the technical bar through design reviews, technical writing, and durable decision records; interface with other platform teams.

Skills

Python

Go

PostgreSQL

AWS

Observability tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Horizon3 is a remote-first cybersecurity company focused on real-time pentest data processing with NodeZero. We are building a ground-up streaming platform to handle hundreds of thousands of hosts and provide actionable insights at scale.

The Senior Engineer will own end-to-end rearchitecture, drive event-driven services, and partner with platform teams to ensure fidelity and operability in production.