Senior Data Ingestion Engineer — Remote ETL/Pipeline

Horizon3; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive Team

Growth Opportunities

Innovative Culture

Hybrid & Remote Work

Competitive Compensation

Job summary

Horizon3 seeks a Sr. Software Engineer for the Data Ingestion team to build and maintain pipelines transforming raw pentest output into structured data across the NodeZero platform.

You will handle high-throughput ETL systems, normalize heterogeneous data, and feed assets, reporting, and analytics, reporting to the Data Ingestion Engineering Manager. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in backend engineering, strong Go/Python skills, and experience with production data pipelines, Kubernetes, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with production backend systems.
• Strong Go and/or Python proficiency — this team's primary languages.
• Experience building and operating data pipelines or ETL systems in production (streaming or batch).
• Working knowledge of message queues or event streaming systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate data ingestion pipelines that process pentest results at scale — scan output, discovered assets, vulnerability findings, and network topology data
• Own end-to-end delivery of pipeline features: schema design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Build and maintain ETL components in Go and/or Python that normalize heterogeneous inputs from NodeZero's execution engines
• Partner with the Asset Inventory and Data Platform teams to define and evolve the data contracts that connect ingestion to downstream consumers
• Diagnose and resolve production issues in pipeline latency, data correctness, and throughput
• Contribute to code and design reviews; provide engineering guidance to P3 engineers on the team

Skills

5+ years of experience

Go

Python

ETL pipelines

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Graph databases

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Tools

Docker

Job description

Horizon3 seeks a Sr. Software Engineer for the Data Ingestion team to build and maintain pipelines transforming raw pentest output into structured data across the NodeZero platform.

You will handle high-throughput ETL systems, normalize heterogeneous data, and feed assets, reporting, and analytics, reporting to the Data Ingestion Engineering Manager. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in backend engineering, strong Go/Python skills, and experience with production data pipelines, Kubernetes, and