Senior Backend Engineer, Data & App Platform
Get to Know Us
Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find, fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZeroTM platform, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across the largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by IT Ops/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs.
We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers & operators, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools and false positives, resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox” security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.
As a remote first company, we require minimum 25Mbps consumer grade broadband connection.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
The Pentest Data Platform (PDP) team owns the shared data platform that ingests NodeZero output from ephemeral operations and delivers it into durable storage, increasingly, in near real time. The team's core mandate is to build a scalable, event-driven architecture that makes operational insights available in near real-time, not just after it finishes.
PDP is a foundational, platform-oriented team whose outputs power core user experiences within the NodeZero security platform. PDP owns the data contracts and internal data services that everything else is built on top of.
NodeZero generates large volumes of structured pentest telemetry: hosts, finding...