Engineering Manager, Data Streaming

The role

You will lead the Data Streaming sub-team responsible for collecting, normalizing, and routing raw data for NodeZero's autonomous pentests. You will manage engineering execution, pipeline reliability, and scale the team to 6–7 engineers.

What you will do

• Lead Data Streaming engineering execution and team health
• Drive sprint cadence, technical design reviews, and engineering quality
• Own SLOs for ingestion throughput, latency, and error rates
• Build on-call processes and runbooks for production pipelines
• Maintain stable ingestion schemas and data contracts
• Scale ingestion pipelines to handle growth in customers and data types
• Partner cross-functionally with Security Research, Database Platform, and Asset Inventory
• Grow the sub-team to full capacity

Required qualifications

• Experience leading teams of 5-8 engineers building and operating data ingestion or ETL/ELT pipelines in production
• Deep understanding of streaming or event-driven data architectures such as Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, or equivalent
• Experience designing data normalization and enrichment pipelines at scale
• Ability to define and own SLOs for pipeline systems
• Experience operating data pipelines in cloud-native environments
• Proficient in Go or Python
• Experience with message queues and streaming systems: Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ, or equivalent
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases as a pipeline destination
• Kubernetes and containerized service operations in AWS or equivalent cloud
• Familiarity with data observability tooling

Nice to have

• Exposure to cybersecurity data
• Experience with graph data pipelines or knowledge graph construction
• Familiarity with CDC (Change Data Capture) patterns
• Background in data quality frameworks or data contract tooling

Benefits

• Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
• Flexible vacation policy
• Generous parental leave
• Equity

About the company

Horizon3 is a remote cybersecurity company that provides the NodeZero platform for autonomous pentests. The team consists of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and cybersecurity practitioners.