Horizon3AI
Staff Backend Engineer, Licensing
$230K–$270K
US, Remote · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial backend services and APIs experience.
- 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 and builds backend services for NodeZero packaging, customer entitlements, and usage enforcement across direct and partner accounts.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and design services and workflows for purchases, packaging, capabilities, entitlements, and usage limits.
- Lead cross-service initiatives hands-on; establish patterns for data correctness, migrations, API evolution, observability, and production support.
- Partner with Product and Engineering, mentor engineers, and resolve difficult production problems.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial backend services and APIs experience.
- Track record leading architecture or technical direction for complex, production-critical systems; experience influencing teams and mentoring engineers.
- Strong experience with SQL, data modeling, distributed systems, service reliability, and cloud-hosted services; experience operating containerized applications such as Docker.
Nice to have
- Experience with licensing, entitlements, subscriptions, usage metering, billing-adjacent workflows, or feature access controls.
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, account hierarchies, RBAC, partner account models, or the listed supplementary technologies and tools.
Pay
$230,000 - $270,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL
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