Staff Backend Engineer - Multi-Tenant SaaS & Security

Horizon3; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision & dental insurance

Equity package

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Horizon3 seeks a Staff Backend Engineer for the Admin Experience team to provide hands-on technical leadership for NodeZero’s account administration capabilities. You will shape services and APIs for user access, account controls, and related roles, while guiding secure tenant boundaries and durable technical direction.

You will remain hands-on, collaborating with Product and Engineering to improve production readiness and deliver scalable backend systems across diverse environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience on production backend systems.
• Experience leading architecture for complex services and multi-tenant platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence engineering practices.
• Experience with RBAC, SSO, and identity and access management.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for backend services and APIs supporting user access, account hierarchies, settings, and administration workflows.
• Lead architecture and implementation of cross-cutting work involving authorization, tenant boundaries, and safe evolution of customer account models.
• Remain hands-on in production code while guiding design decisions, technical tradeoffs, and delivery across the team.
• Raise standards for API quality, testing, security, observability, rollout practices, and operational readiness.
• Partner with Product and adjacent teams to align interfaces and keep administration capabilities consistent across NodeZero.
• Mentor and influence engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and clear technical documentation.

Skills

Python/Go/Java/TypeScript

SQL

REST/GraphQL APIs

Docker

Cloud services

RBAC/Identity management

AWS

Kubernetes

Observability tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Datadog

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

GraphQL

Job description

Horizon3 seeks a Staff Backend Engineer for the Admin Experience team to provide hands-on technical leadership for NodeZero’s account administration capabilities. You will shape services and APIs for user access, account controls, and related roles, while guiding secure tenant boundaries and durable technical direction.

You will remain hands-on, collaborating with Product and Engineering to improve production readiness and deliver scalable backend systems across diverse environments.