Principal Backend Engineer, Enterprise Platform
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Horizon3Cybersecurity software
US, RemoteFull-TimePrincipal
SalaryBase salary range $255,000 - $295,000 annually. Additional compensation: All full-time roles are eligible for an equity package in the form of stock options.
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Job Details
- Experience
- Extensive professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend services.
- Required Skills
- DockerPythonSQLJavaKubernetesTypeScriptGo
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Extensive professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend services.
- Demonstrated technical leadership and impact beyond a single team.
- Experience designing APIs and data models for multi-tenant or customer-facing SaaS systems.
- Deep experience building and operating backend services in a modern language such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.
- Strong SQL and relational data modeling experience.
- Experience with API and service design for production systems.
- Experience building cloud-hosted services and operating containerized applications such as Docker.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or a comparable orchestrator.
- Strong architectural judgment across complex data models, distributed systems, security, reliability, and scalability tradeoffs.
- A record of sustained technical impact across multiple teams and contributions to company-level technical direction.
- Ability to earn trust with senior technical, product, and business partners through clear communication and sound decisions.
- Experience developing senior technical talent through influence and mentorship.
- Travel of up to 5% may be required.
Responsibilities
- Set long-term technical direction for Enterprise Platform capabilities, including licensing, account administration, onboarding, provisioning, notifications, and partner workflows.
- Guide architecture for multi-tenant services and account models, including permissions, product access, usage limits, and asset allocation.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and business leaders to shape technical priorities and investment decisions.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives from ambiguous problem to durable solution.
- Contribute to critical systems through design reviews, code reviews, technical investigation, and hands-on implementation.
- Improve production reliability and supportability through testing, observability, monitoring, alerting, safe rollouts, and incident learning.
- Balance product delivery with operational support, on-call health, and long-term platform investment.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders and create reusable technical guidance.
- Communicate architecture, risks, and decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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