Staff Backend Engineer - Lead Data-Driven Security APIs (Remote)

horizon3ai; EE. UU.; Híbrido; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Stock options

Health insurance

Vision coverage

Dental insurance

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Career development

Descripción de la vacante

horizon3ai is seeking a staff-level backend engineer to set technical direction for Python services, data processing, APIs, architecture, and production operations. You will lead complex work across engineering partners while helping raise reliability and engineering standards.

Responsibilities include defining architecture, leading end-to-end initiatives, designing reliable workflows for large assessments, building high-throughput ETL pipelines, and ensuring observability and maintainability

Formación

• Staff-level backend experience setting direction and resolving complex design issues.
• Strong Python service and API architecture skills with performance focus.
• Experience designing reliable processing for long-running workloads and failures.
• Strong SQL skills with analysis and optimization of complex queries.
• Experience with ETL, relational data modeling, and API design; collaboration across teams.
• Technical leadership in architecture decisions, mentoring, and production ownership.

Responsabilidades

• Define architecture and technical direction for backend services and APIs, balancing correctness, performance, maintainability, and future change.
• Lead initiatives from problem definition and design through delivery and production support, coordinating dependencies across teams.
• Design dependable workflows for large, long-running assessments, including scheduling, retries, idempotency, state management, and recovery from failures.
• Build and operate high-throughput ETL pipelines and relational datasets from knowledge-graph output; shape data models that accurately represent attack paths.
• Write, review, and optimize complex SQL, and define GraphQL and graph-oriented API patterns for exploring relationships in security data.
• Own operational health through observability, scalability, release readiness, and on-call practices; document decisions, mentor engineers, and align backend work with product priorities.

Conocimientos

Staff-level leadership

Python

API architecture

SQL optimization

ETL pipelines

Relational data modeling

GraphQL APIs

Technical leadership

Descripción del empleo

horizon3ai is seeking a staff-level backend engineer to set technical direction for Python services, data processing, APIs, architecture, and production operations. You will lead complex work across engineering partners while helping raise reliability and engineering standards.

Responsibilities include defining architecture, leading end-to-end initiatives, designing reliable workflows for large assessments, building high-throughput ETL pipelines, and ensuring observability and maintainability