Staff Backend Engineer, Licensing

The role

You will provide technical leadership for services managing NodeZero packaging, customer entitlements, and usage enforcement. You will design models and workflows for licensing and access rules while partnering with Product and Engineering teams.

What you will do

• Set technical direction for services representing customer purchases, packaging, and usage limits
• Design models and workflows for licensing and access rules across direct and MSP/MSPP accounts
• Lead complex initiatives across services and customer-account models
• Establish patterns for data correctness, migrations, API evolution, and production support
• Partner with Product and engineering teams on requirements and tradeoffs
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing
• Own resolution of difficult production problems

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Substantial experience in backend services and APIs
• Track record of leading architecture or technical direction for complex, production-critical systems
• Strong experience with SQL, data modeling, distributed systems, and service reliability
• Experience influencing technical decisions across teams and mentoring other engineers
• Deep experience building and operating backend services in Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling experience
• Experience building cloud-hosted services and operating containerized applications such as Docker
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or a comparable orchestrator

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, or partner account models
• Experience with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, and event-driven or distributed systems
• Familiarity with Kafka or other event-streaming systems
• Familiarity with workflow tools such as Temporal or Prefect
• Familiarity with production observability platforms

Benefits

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

About the company

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