Engineering Manager, EDR

The role

You will lead the EDR remediation team to turn offensive findings into defensive actions. You will manage hiring, growth, and operational discipline for backend engineers and security practitioners.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers and security practitioners
• Help the team turn EDR workflows into buildable requirements and usable product capabilities
• Partner with a staff-level technical lead and Product on roadmap and sequencing
• Translate ambiguous goals into sequenced, deliverable work
• Manage scope actively
• Stay technically engaged to challenge assumptions and unblock the team
• Establish operational discipline including design review, release practices, on-call, and incident response

Required qualifications

• Familiarity with EDR or security operations
• Proven experience leading highly technical backend or platform engineering teams
• Track record delivering products under a fixed date with ambiguous requirements
• Strong dependency and stakeholder management across engineering teams
• Understanding of security and reliability best practices in multi-tenant SaaS
• Experience partnering with a staff-level technical lead
• Ability to hold a quality or safety bar under schedule pressure

Nice to have

• Familiarity with agentic or LLM-backed systems in production
• Background in security operations, detection engineering, or offensive security
• Experience leading a platform team whose customers were other internal engineering teams
• Exposure to event-driven architectures or streaming platforms (Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, Flink, or similar)

Benefits

• Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
• Flexible vacation policy
• Generous parental leave
• Equity package in the form of stock options

About the company

Horizon3 is a remote cybersecurity company dedicated to enabling organizations to proactively find and fix exploitable attack vectors. Their flagship product is the NodeZero platform.