Senior Backend Engineer - Real-Time Pentest Data Platform

Horizon3.ai; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote Work

Excellent compensation

Job summary

Horizon3.ai seeks a Senior Engineer for the Pentest Data Platform to rework how pentest telemetry becomes findings, enabling real-time processing and scalable insights across enterprise environments.

You will own streaming designs, contribute to architecture decisions, and ensure reliability at scale within a 100% remote team. The role emphasizes performance, observability, and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate real-time event-driven services for pentest data.
• Translate batch-era logic to streaming designs without loss of fidelity.
• Ensure operational excellence with SLOs, instrumentation, and on-call readiness.
• Collaborate with platform and attack-engine teams on API contracts.

Skills

Python

Go

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Neo4j

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Neo4j

Kafka/Kinesis

Job description

Horizon3.ai seeks a Senior Engineer for the Pentest Data Platform to rework how pentest telemetry becomes findings, enabling real-time processing and scalable insights across enterprise environments.

You will own streaming designs, contribute to architecture decisions, and ensure reliability at scale within a 100% remote team. The role emphasizes performance, observability, and cross-team collaboration.