Senior Backend Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: US, Remote; up to 5% travel may be required.

Base salary: $199,000–$235,000 annually, with equity in the form of stock options for full-time roles.

Company

hirify.global is a remote cybersecurity company developing NodeZero, a platform for production-safe autonomous penetration testing and security assessment operations.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate backend services and workflows that provision customer accounts and assets and activate product entitlements.
• Own projects from technical design through testing, release, observability, and production support, including purchase-triggered and partner-related flows.
• Build asynchronous workflows with safe retries, idempotency, error handling, and recovery from partial failures.
• Improve monitoring and troubleshooting for provisioning and activation, investigate failures, and address root causes.
• Collaborate with licensing, administration, Product, partner, and customer-facing teams.
• Write tests, design documentation and runbooks, support safe rollouts, participate in reviews, and help teammates solve technical problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend services.
• Experience designing APIs, data models, or distributed workflows for production systems.
• Strong SQL and relational database experience, plus experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with Docker or other containerized applications and a strong foundation in testing and production operations.
• Ability to own complex work, reason about failures and recovery, communicate clearly, collaborate across engineering and Product teams, manage concurrent work, and surface risks early.
• Strong ownership, sound judgment, attention to detail, and commitment to tested, observable, well-documented production systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with customer onboarding, account provisioning, purchase or subscription events, or product activation workflows.
• Experience with event-driven systems, queues, workflow orchestration, retries, idempotency, or failure recovery.
• Experience with entitlements, multi-tenant SaaS, partner channels, or product-led growth workflows.
• Experience with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Temporal, Prefect, or similar tools.
• Experience improving service observability with Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or comparable tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote role; Horizon3 also supports hybrid work depending on role and location, including an office in Chicago where some roles require regular in-office presence.
• Inclusive, collaborative culture focused on respect, ownership, results, creativity, and professional growth.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and families.
• Flexible vacation policy and generous parental leave.
• Competitive compensation and equity through stock options.

Hiring process

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