Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform at Horizon3
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Lead database architecture and reliability for NodeZero pentest findings, asset graphs and telemetry, using PostgreSQL, graph and time-series stores. This US-remote role may require up to 5% travel.
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- Location
- Remote
- Advertised region
- US, Remote / United States
- Employment
- FullTime
- Work arrangement
- remote
- Technologies
- Python, Kubernetes, SQL, Go
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Role overview
Horizon3 develops NodeZero, a container-based autonomous penetration-testing platform. This hands-on staff engineering role sets technical direction and writes production code for the Data Platform team. The posting lists remote work in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Set schema, data-modeling, indexing and query-contract standards across teams.
- Analyze slow queries, improve execution plans and detect performance regressions.
- Own replication, failover, backup validation, capacity planning and database incidents.
- Design zero-downtime migrations and review application teams’ data access patterns.
Qualifications
- Eight or more years in software engineering with deep database specialization.
- Expert PostgreSQL query tuning, replication, vacuum and locking; indexing, partitioning and connection pooling.
- Graph databases, time-series or columnar stores, cloud or Kubernetes operation, Go or Python and technical leadership.
Technology in this role
- Python: Graph databases, time-series or columnar stores, cloud or Kubernetes operation, Go or Python and technical leadership.
How to apply
Review the original posting and apply through the employer’s careers page.
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