Senior Backend Engineer - Growth & MSSP Platform

NightDragon Acquisition Corp.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid & Remote Work

Competitive Salary with Equity

Job summary

Horizon3 is seeking a senior backend engineer to own critical platform components for licensing, entitlements, and admin experiences across NodeZero. You will drive secure, scalable backend design with a focus on multi-tenant isolation and production health.

You will collaborate with teams across Pentest Data Platform and Platform Integration to ensure consistent entitlement and access rules, while delivering reliable, observable services with strong test coverage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience using modern OO or functional languages.
• Experience building production applications on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) using Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services that enforce licensing, entitlements, feature access, usage limits, and packaging rules across NodeZero.
• Build and evolve provisioning and onboarding workflows—account setup, entitlement propagation, auto-provisioning.
• Develop admin experience infrastructure: RBAC, account relationships, and multi-tenant governance.

Skills

Backend engineering

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

RBAC

Observability

Education

Bachelor's in CS/CE or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

SQL

Job description

Horizon3 is seeking a senior backend engineer to own critical platform components for licensing, entitlements, and admin experiences across NodeZero. You will drive secure, scalable backend design with a focus on multi-tenant isolation and production health.

You will collaborate with teams across Pentest Data Platform and Platform Integration to ensure consistent entitlement and access rules, while delivering reliable, observable services with strong test coverage.