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Senior Engineering Manager, Database Platform

Horizon3 AI· Engineering
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Remote$242.3k - $275k + equityFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Lead the Database Platform team responsible for Horizon3's data infrastructure supporting NodeZero pentests and reporting. Own data architecture, reliability, and operations for core data layer including PostgreSQL and Neo4j, with roadmap for time-series and analytical stores.

Responsibilities

  • Hire, mentor, and grow the Database Platform team to full capacity. Establish database engineering norms and a culture of ownership for engineers who share responsibility for the most critical data layer in our stack.
  • Data Architecture: Partner with the Principal Engineer to define technical direction for NodeZero's data platform — schema design standards, query patterns, migration strategies, and scalability principles.
  • Reliability & Operations: Own SLOs for database availability, query latency, and data integrity across production environments. Drive oncall maturity and runbook quality.
  • Data Modeling & Schema Governance: Establish schema review processes and data modeling standards. Ensure NodeZero's data model evolves cleanly as new pentest capabilities ship.
  • Cross-team Partnership: Collaborate with Data Ingestion, Security Research, and API Platform teams to align on data contracts, API design, and pipeline dependencies.
  • Act as a Product Owner: Translate data platform needs from Security Research and Product into a clear, prioritized engineering roadmap.

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience leading teams that design, scale, and operate relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and hybrid data stores (graph, time-series, or document) in production at scale.
  • Experience defining schema migration strategies for high-velocity production environments with zero-downtime requirements.
  • Experience with multi-tenant data architectures: customer data isolation, row-level security, and data residency concerns.
  • Strong understanding of database performance: query optimization, indexing strategies, EXPLAIN analysis, and connection pooling.

Skills

Required:GoPythonSQLPostgreSQLKubernetes
Nice to have:AWS data servicesGraph databases / Time-series stores

Benefits

  • Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Generous parental leave
  • Competitive salary, equity and benefits
  • Hybrid & Remote Work options including potential in-office presence at Chicago office
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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