Engineering Manager, Admin Experience

Location Specific: United States (Remote)

Get to Know Us

Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find, 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. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by IT Ops/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs.

We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers & operators, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools and false positives, resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox” security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.

What You’ll Do

As the Manager of the Admin Experience engineering team, you’ll lead the backend work that helps NodeZero customers administer their organizations securely and with confidence. The team’s domain includes user access, parent-child account controls, account settings, and evolving administration capabilities such as roles, access controls, and audit logs. You’ll set team direction and create the conditions for engineers to deliver useful customer features while maintaining reliable production services. You’ll partner closely with Product and adjacent engineering teams to turn customer needs into a clear roadmap, and balance delivery with operational ownership and longer-term platform health..

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow the Admin Experience engineering team; establish clear ownership, goals, priorities, and feedback practices.

• Partner with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to shape the roadmap for user access, account hierarchies, account settings, and administration workflows.

• Guide technical direction for backend services, APIs, data models, and authorization boundaries; help the team make sound tradeoffs.

• Balance feature delivery with production support, on-call responsibilities, and investment in platform reliability and maintainability.

• Set expectations for quality and operational readiness, including tests, safe rollout practices, observability, design documentation, runbooks, and support materials.

• Recruit, onboard, and develop engineers; support effective collaboration and accountability across the team.

• Coordinate with partner teams so administration workflows remain secure and consistent across NodeZero.

As a Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Recruiting and onboarding talented individuals to support our organizational goals

• Mentoring, coaching, equipping, and developing your team

• Recognizing and retaining high performers

• Leading horizontally with peer Management & Senior Leaders

What You’ll Bring

• Ability to set clear priorities, manage concurrent initiatives, and guide a team through ambiguity and changing needs.

• A coaching-oriented leadership style that supports hiring, onboarding, feedback, and engineer growth.

• Sound judgment balancing customer impact, security, delivery speed, reliability, and longer-term technical health.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with Product, engineering, and customer-facing partners.

• A hands-on, quality-focused approach to design reviews, production operations, and technical documentation.

Required Education / Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience leading software engineers delivering production backend services or SaaS platform capabilities.

• Strong technical background in backend architecture, APIs, data modeling, and production operations, with the ability to engage meaningfully in design and code reviews.

• Experience with identity, access control, multi-tenant systems, account hierarchies, or comparable administration capabilities.

• Experience hiring, onboarding, coaching, and developing engineers.

Required Tech Stack Experience

• Experience guiding teams that build backend services in a modern language such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.

• Working knowledge of SQL and relational data stores, API design (REST or GraphQL), and cloud-hosted services.

• Familiarity with containerized applications such as Docker and with production engineering practices including automated testing and observability.

• Experience with every example technology is not required; relevant depth and the ability to guide sound technical choices…