Horizon3AI
Staff Backend Engineer, Admin Experience
$230K–$270K
US, Remote · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including deep experience building production backend systems.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Provides hands-on technical leadership for NodeZero backend services and APIs that support account administration, authorization, and customer access controls.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and lead architecture and implementation for account, authorization, and administration services.
- Build production code, improve API quality and operational readiness, and diagnose complex production issues.
- Partner across teams and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and technical documentation.
What they ask for
- Track record leading technical direction or architecture for complex services, APIs, or platform capabilities.
- Strong experience with distributed or multi-tenant systems, data modeling, SQL, and production reliability.
- Deep experience building backend services in a modern language such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript; experience with SQL, relational data stores, REST or GraphQL APIs, and cloud-hosted production services.
- Experience with containerized services such as Docker, customer-facing systems, and mentoring engineers or improving engineering practices.
Nice to have
- Experience with RBAC, SSO, account hierarchies, delegated administration, auditability, or identity and access management.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, feature flags, Datadog, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry; cybersecurity or complex-tenant SaaS experience.
Pay
$230,000 - $270,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, SQL, REST, GraphQL, Docker
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