Horizon3AI
Engineering Manager, EDR
$225K–$265K
US, Remote · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
About the job
Leads the EDR remediation team, turning findings from autonomous penetration tests into defensive product capabilities while managing and developing engineers.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, hire, and grow backend engineers and security practitioners.
- Translate ambiguous goals and EDR workflows into sequenced, deliverable requirements and product capabilities; manage scope and dependencies.
- Establish operational practices for design review, releases, on-call, and incident response.
What they ask for
- Familiarity with EDR or security operations sufficient to partner with domain experts.
- Experience leading highly technical backend or platform engineering teams.
- Track record delivering products to fixed dates with ambiguous requirements and active scope management.
- Strong stakeholder and dependency management; understanding of security and reliability best practices in multi-tenant SaaS.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with agentic or LLM-backed systems in production.
- Background in security operations, detection engineering, or offensive security; exposure to event-driven architectures or streaming platforms.
Pay
USD $225,250- $265,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, Flink
AI focus
Preferred familiarity with agentic or LLM-backed systems in production, including awareness of how they fail.
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