Engineering Manager (Tripwires)
Company Overview
Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and 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.
We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners.
What You'll Do
We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the team behind NodeZero Tripwires. You'll lead a team, set the technical bar, partner with Product on the roadmap, and work closely with our Attack team to keep tripwire design grounded in current adversary tradecraft.
In this role, you will:
- Own the delivery strategy for Tripwires: decoy and deception development, detection, alerting, and the customer-facing experience around them.
- Partner closely with Product to sequence the roadmap, and expand Tripwires coverage.
- Recruit, mentor, and retain engineers who care about both distributed systems craft and the security domain.
- Oversee the design of new tripwire types that are attractive to attackers and indistinguishable from legitimate assets.
- Invest in operational excellence; SLOs, observability, on-call, and incident response.
- Partner with the Attack team to create tight feedback loops so new offensive findings translate into new detection coverage.
- Establish healthy team practices: design reviews, technical writing, clear API contracts with neighboring teams, and durable decision records.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Experience managing backend, data, or platform engineering teams, with a track record of shipping through the team.
- Solid fundamentals in backend and distributed systems: data modeling, API design, queues/streams, and the tradeoffs between batch and streaming.
- Comfort with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containers, and observability tooling (Datadog or similar).
- Ability to lead through technical ambiguity — you can facilitate a design discussion, help the team converge, and know when to dig in yourself.
- Clear written communication: you can put together a roadmap, a design doc, or a postmortem the rest of the company can read.
- A sense of ownership for how the team operates day-to-day, not just what it ships.
- Working knowledge of deception technology: honeypots, honeytokens, canaries
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to event-driven architectures or streaming platforms (Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, Flink, or similar).
- Understanding of how attackers move through an environment post-compromise: credential access, lateral movement, and privilege escalation.
- Background in cybersecurity, pentesting, or vulnerability management.
- Familiarity with Python and/or Go.
Perks of Horizon3
- Inclusive Team: We value diversity and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive.
- Growth Opportunities: Be part of a dynamic and growing team with numerous career development opportunities.
- Innovative Culture: Work in a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.
- Hybrid & Remote Work: We embrace a mix of remote and hybrid work models.
- Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive salary, equity and benefits. Our benefits include health, vision & dental insurance, a flexible vacation policy, and generous parental leave.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Horizon3 is not just an equal opportunity employer - we are a community that values diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental principles of our culture and success. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status by law.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
