Horizon3AI
Senior Backend Engineer, Precision Defense
$235K
US, Remote · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Builds backend systems and customer-facing security workflows that help organizations detect, validate, and improve their defenses.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain backend APIs, ETL pipelines, and data-processing systems for security workflows.
- Design GraphQL APIs and event-driven distributed services for scalable security automation.
- Support production reliability through monitoring, incident response, and debugging; collaborate on customer-facing features.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience using modern object-oriented or functional languages.
- Experience building applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Expert proficiency in SQL.
Nice to have
- Experience in EDR, detection engineering, deception systems, vulnerability intelligence, or rapid response workflows.
- Familiarity with major EDR platforms, GraphQL backends, or relational and graph databases.
Pay
USD $170,00 - $235,000 annually (base salary); equity package in the form of stock options (amount not stated).
Tools
Python, Java, Go, Scala, C++, TypeScript, AWS, Azure
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