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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.

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Source checked: 2026-10-30

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