Staff Backend Engineer - Licensing & Entitlements (Remote)

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive team

Growth opportunities

Innovative culture

Hybrid & remote work

Competitive compensation & equity

Job summary

Horizon3 is a remote cybersecurity company building the NodeZero platform for autonomous pentests across diverse environments. We seek a Staff Backend Engineer to lead licensing, usage, and entitlements services, shaping scalable, production-grade systems.

You will collaborate across Product and Engineering, set patterns for data correctness, and mentor engineers while delivering reliable, secure backend capabilities that enterprise customers depend on.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial experience in backend services and APIs.
• Track record of leading architecture or technical direction for complex, production‑critical systems.
• Strong experience with SQL, data modeling, distributed systems, and service reliability.
• Experience influencing technical decisions across teams and mentoring other engineers.
• Excellent judgment in balancing correctness, scalability, maintainability, and delivery speed.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for services that represent customer purchases, packaging, enabled capabilities, entitlements, and usage limits.
• Design robust models and workflows that apply licensing and access rules consistently across accounts.
• Lead complex initiatives across services and customer‑account models, remaining hands‑on in implementation.
• Establish patterns for data correctness, safe migrations, API evolution, observability, and production support.
• Partner with Product and other engineering teams on requirements, integration points, and tradeoffs affecting customer access and usage.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and clear technical writing.
• Own resolution of difficult production problems and drive improvements that reduce recurrence and operational burden.

Skills

Technical leadership

Backend services

SQL & data modeling

API design

Mentoring

Communication

Ownership of production systems

Problem solving

8+ years experience in backend

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or equivalent

8+ years professional software engineering experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Temporal

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Horizon3 is a remote cybersecurity company building the NodeZero platform for autonomous pentests across diverse environments. We seek a Staff Backend Engineer to lead licensing, usage, and entitlements services, shaping scalable, production-grade systems.

You will collaborate across Product and Engineering, set patterns for data correctness, and mentor engineers while delivering reliable, secure backend capabilities that enterprise customers depend on.