Senior Software Engineer, Data Ingestion
Horizon3 AI14 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$200k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate scalable data ingestion pipelines for pentest results, assets, vulnerabilities, and network topology data.
- Own end-to-end pipeline feature delivery, including schema design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Build and maintain Go and/or Python ETL components that normalize heterogeneous execution-engine inputs.
- Define and evolve data contracts with Asset Inventory and Data Platform teams.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues involving pipeline latency, data correctness, and throughput.
- Contribute to code and design reviews and provide engineering guidance to P3 engineers.
- Instrument services, write runbooks, and operate services throughout their full lifecycle.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with production backend systems.
- Strong proficiency in Go and/or Python.
- Production experience building and operating streaming or batch data pipelines or ETL systems.
- Working knowledge of message queues or event streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and migrations.
- Understanding of data normalization, schema evolution, and backward compatibility.
- Experience running services on Kubernetes and in containerized environments with Docker.
- Experience deploying and debugging distributed systems in AWS or an equivalent cloud.
- Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate clearly through design documents, pull request descriptions, and asynchronous updates.
- Preferred experience includes cybersecurity or security tooling, vulnerability or threat data, graph databases such as Neo4j or DGraph, Apache Kafka at production scale, and offensive security or pentest workflows.
Benefits
- Fully remote company; the role may require up to 5% travel.
- Remote and hybrid work models may be available depending on role and location, including the Chicago office where some roles require regular in-office presence.
- Health, vision, and dental care for employees and families.
- Flexible vacation policy and generous parental leave.
- Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles.
- Inclusive culture, growth opportunities, and collaborative working environment.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Horizon3 AI
Horizon3 AI builds NodeZero, a proactive security platform that autonomously performs penetration testing and validates attack paths across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. The company sells its software by subscription to security and IT teams at enterprises and government agencies, helping prioritize and verify fixes. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and serves customers across regulated industries and the public sector.