Senior Backend Engineer, Security Automation & EDR

Openkrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid & Remote Work

Equity package

Health insurance

Job summary

Horizon3 seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for the Precision Defense team to build backend APIs, ETL workflows, and GraphQL services enabling proactive security across Rapid Response, Tripwires, and Autonomous Defense.

You will translate attacker-informed findings into measurable defensive outcomes, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to production reliability in a fast-paced Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience on AWS/Azure/GCP with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Expert proficiency in SQL.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend APIs, ETL pipelines, and data processing systems for Rapid Response, Tripwires, EDR, and Autonomous Defense.
• Design and implement GraphQL APIs across product components.
• Develop event-driven services and distributed systems for scalable security automation.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, attack engineers, and product managers to deliver customer-facing security findings.
• Contribute to production reliability: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and debugging.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

Scala

C++

TypeScript

SQL

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Neo4j

Job description

Horizon3 seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for the Precision Defense team to build backend APIs, ETL workflows, and GraphQL services enabling proactive security across Rapid Response, Tripwires, and Autonomous Defense.

You will translate attacker-informed findings into measurable defensive outcomes, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to production reliability in a fast-paced Agile environment.