What You'll DoWe're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our EDR remediation team. NodeZero proves which attacks work in a customer's production environment. This team closes the loop - turning
what we learn from offense into defensive action.
You lead a team of diverse skill sets and they work at different cadences and measure progress differently. Building an environment where those differences compound rather than collide is a central part of the job. You own hiring, growth, and how the team works together as it scales.
You partner closely with a staff-level technical lead who owns architecture, with Product on sequencing, and with engineering leaders across the organization. This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who has moved beyond hands-on coding but still has the depth to evaluate a design, challenge an estimate, and know when a team is stuck.
In this role, you will:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers and security practitioners with deep EDR expertise, with clear career paths for each.
- Help the team turn EDR workflows into buildable requirements and usable product capabilities.
- Partner with a staff-level technical lead who owns architecture, and with Product on roadmap and sequencing.
- Translate ambiguous goals into sequenced, deliverable work, and manage scope actively rather than absorbing it.
- Stay technically engaged enough to challenge assumptions and unblock the team, while creating outcomes through engineers rather than serving as the primary implementer.
- Establish the operational discipline this work requires: design review, release practices, on-call, and incident response.
What You'll Bring- Familiarity with EDR or security operations sufficient to partner effectively with domain experts.
- Proven experience leading highly technical backend or platform engineering teams - ideally within a SaaS, cybersecurity, or cloud-scale environment.
- Track record delivering products under a fixed date, where requirements were ambiguous and scope had to be actively managed rather than assumed.
- Strong dependency and stakeholder management across many engineering teams, with a habit of surfacing risks and tradeoffs early and in writing.
- Understanding of security and reliability best practices in multi-tenant SaaS.
- Experience partnering with a staff-level technical lead, with a clear sense of where management ends and technical ownership begins.
- Ability to hold a quality or safety bar under schedule pressure, and to escalate scope tradeoffs rather than absorb them.
Preferred- Familiarity with agentic or LLM-backed systems in production, and a realistic view of how they fail.
- 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).
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 depending on role and location, including our Chicago office, where some roles require regular in-office presence.
- Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive salary, equity and benefits. Our benefits include health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family, a flexible vacation policy, and generous parental leave.
Compensation and ValuesAt Horizon3, we believe that our people are our greatest asset, and our compensation philosophy reflects this core value. We are committed to fostering an environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and rewarded for their contributions. Our compensation structure is designed to be fair, competitive, and transparent, ensuring that every team member is recognized and compensated equitably across roles, levels, and locations.
In accordance with various State's transparency regulations, we provide the following salary range information for this position:
- Base salary range: $225,250- $265,000 annually. The exact salary will be determined based on the selected candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and relevant skills.
- Additional compensation: All full-time roles are eligible for an equity package in the form of stock options.
Other DutiesPlease 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.
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