Staff Backend Engineer, Licensing
Horizon3 AI1 day ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$230k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for services representing customer purchases, packaging, enabled capabilities, entitlements, and usage limits.
- Design licensing and access-rule models and workflows for direct and MSP/MSPP accounts.
- Lead complex cross-service initiatives while remaining hands-on in implementation.
- Establish practices for data correctness, safe migrations, API evolution, observability, and production support.
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams on requirements, integrations, and customer access tradeoffs.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and technical writing.
- Own difficult production problems and drive improvements that reduce recurrence and operational burden.
Requirements
- 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 backend services and API experience.
- 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 engineers.
- Strong backend service development experience in a modern language such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.
- Experience building cloud-hosted services and operating containerized applications such as Docker, with familiarity with Kubernetes or a comparable orchestrator.
- Preferred experience with licensing, entitlements, subscriptions, usage metering, billing-adjacent workflows, feature access controls, multi-tenant SaaS, account hierarchies, RBAC, or partner account models.
- Preferred experience with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, event-driven or distributed systems, Kafka, Temporal, Prefect, and production observability platforms.
Benefits
- Fully remote company; the role may require up to 5% travel.
- Full-time roles are eligible for an equity package in the form of stock options.
- Benefits include health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and families, flexible vacation, and generous parental leave.
- The company supports remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location, including a Chicago office where some roles require regular in-office presence.
- Inclusive culture and career development opportunities.
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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.